Test 2 · ★ · Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of t…

Lowkey, why did the barber lie to the emperor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: do · To what, where: barber lie

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1758 «Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan, part 9: the witch's rod, the brothers freed, a barber's secret» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lie	det
6	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lie	compound
7	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 emperor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 emperor	det
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Lowkey	the barber lie				to the emperor	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=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 · ← Mova's choice

to avoid the axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 avoid	mark
2	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 axe	det
4	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	to-infinitive		the axe					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent axe=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to save his own neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 save	mark
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 neck	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 neck	amod
5	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		his own neck					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme

Option 3

for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 fun	case
2	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

to hide his shame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shame	nmod:poss
4	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		his shame					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shame=Patient
2	shame		his = he						nom shame «feeling transitive»: poss=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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