Test 4 · ★ · pg641, Schippeitaro, what happens: a brave youth frees a m…
Why do the villagers hand over a girl every year?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: villagers · What happens: hand
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1756 «pg641, Schippeitaro, what happens: a brave youth frees a maiden from a cat monster with a borrowed dog» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 hand | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hand | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 villagers | det |
| 4 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hand | nsubj |
| 5 | hand | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hand | obl |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hand | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | present · do-support | the villagers | year | over a girl | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 · ← Mova's choice
Cause the girls keep asking to leave home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 girls | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girls | det |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asking | xcomp |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 leave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | infinitive | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | keep | present | the Cause girls | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the Cause girls not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Cause girls not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Cause the mountain monster wants her for dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monster | det |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 monster | compound |
| 4 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wants | nsubj |
| 5 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Cause | ccomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wants | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 dinner | case |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wants | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | present | the mountain monster | her = she | for dinner | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |
Option 3
Cause the prince makes them pay a tax
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prince | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tax | det |
| 8 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pay | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | infinitive | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | the Cause prince | them = they | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay | infinitive | them = they not said here | a tax | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset |
Option 4
Cause the priest says it brings good crops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 priest | det |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brings | nsubj |
| 6 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crops | amod |
| 8 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brings | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | infinitive | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the priest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring | present | priest | good crops | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent crop=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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