Test 13 · ★ · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

Ngl, why was the hubby fed up with her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be, feed up · To what, where: hubby

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hubby	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Ngl	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hubby	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hubby	det
6	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hubby	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 fed	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hubby	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the hubby					tree rules
2	feed up	participle		the hubby not said here				with Ngl	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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

She would never stop spending their gold on feasts for the whole village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 stop	advmod
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	spending	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gold	nmod:poss
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spending	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 feasts	case
9	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spending	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 village	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 village	amod
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	would	She						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	spend	gerund	She not said here	their gold				on feasts goal; for the whole village	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gold=Asset on feast=Goal

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She wouldn't stop spending

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stop	advmod
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	would	She	spending					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector spending=Eventuality

Option 3

She kept spending all the money on feasts and gifts for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	spending	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 money	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 money	det
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spending	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 feasts	case
8	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spending	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gifts	cc
10	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feasts	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 everyone	case
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 spending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	She						tree rules
2	spend	gerund	She not said here	all money				on feasts and gifts goal; for everyone	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on feast=Goal

Option 4

She kept buying useless things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	She						tree rules
2	buy	gerund	She not said here	useless things					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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