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Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor mill…

Bruv, the miller went all sad at night. Why couldn't he get any kip?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: miller · What happens: go, not get · To what, where: kip

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1702 «Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor miller strikes a bargain with a water spirit» 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

Sentence 1: Bruv, the miller went all sad at night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miller	det
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 sad	advmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the miller				night	Bruv vocative; sad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Why couldn't he get any kip?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 get	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 kip	det
7	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	could	miller	any kip					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kip=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

the baby kept crying and nobody could sleep in the mill house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sleep	cc
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 sleep	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sleep	aux
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kept	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
11	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	compound
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the baby						tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the baby not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	could	nobody			the mill house			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location

Option 2

he was worried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 worried	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worried	cop
3	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					worried property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

his wife snored loudly beside him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snored	nsubj
3	snored	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 snored	advmod
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 snored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore	past	his wife					beside him = he; loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he lay awake thinking sad thoughts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lay	xcomp
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lay	advcl
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thoughts	amod
6	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	he					awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	gerund	he not said here	sad thoughts					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thought=Theme

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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