Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth…

the ox was a total unit, right? what did it do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ox · What happens: be, do · To what, where: total unit

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1647 «Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth reaches the moat round the church» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ox	det
2	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unit	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unit	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 unit	det
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 unit	amod
6	unit	unit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	13 do	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 unit	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 unit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the ox	a total unit					tree rules
2	do	past · do-support	ox	a total unit					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

ate a big meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 meal	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meal	amod
4	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		a big meal					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

drank all the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 water	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past		all water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 3

went to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 sleep	mark
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past							vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

ate a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bit	det
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ate	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		a bit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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