Test 10 · ★ · pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack,…

Bro, what did the neighbour find when he dug up the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: neighbour · What happens: find, dig up · To what, where: tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 find	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 find	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 neighbour	det
6	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	nsubj
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 dug	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dug	nsubj
10	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 find	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 dug	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dug	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	the neighbour					Bro vocative	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
2	dig up	past	neighbour	the tree					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A box of rusty nails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 box	det
2	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 nails	case
4	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nails	amod
5	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 box	nmod

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

Option 2

A parcel of old bones and rotten rags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 parcel	det
2	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bones	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bones	amod
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 parcel	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rags	cc
7	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rags	amod
8	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bones	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A parcel of old bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 parcel	det
2	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bones	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bones	amod
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 parcel	nmod

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

Option 4

A pile of dark soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pile	det
2	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 soil	case
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soil	amod
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pile	nmod

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

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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