Test 12 · ★ · pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack,…

Dead, where did the old man bury the dog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: bury · To what, where: dog

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bury	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 bury	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bury	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bury	nsubj
8	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dead	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bury	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past · do-support	the old man	the dog					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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

In the barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 barn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 barn	det
3	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Under the oak tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	4 tree	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Under the fig-tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	5 tree	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
3	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 fig	punct
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 well	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 well	det
3	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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