Test 9 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Underground Workers, part 1: lost Hans…

Wait, why was the master keeping all that gold hidden?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, master, gold · What happens: wait, be, keep, hide · To what, where: master, gold

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1787 «Northern Tales, The Underground Workers, part 1: lost Hans is led to a cave of gold and tiny smiths» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 master	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 master	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 master	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 master	det
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 master	acl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 gold	det:predet
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 gold	det
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeping	obj
11	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 keeping	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the master	tree rules
3	keep	gerund	the master not said here	all gold	tree rules
4	hide	participle	all gold not said here		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: 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

So nobody would stop the work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 stop	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	nobody	the work					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

So people wouldn't stop working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	would	people						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	people not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

So people would keep working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 keep	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	people						tree rules
2	work	gerund	people not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

So the workers wouldn't ever run off and go home to their families and friends

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	7 run	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 workers	det
3	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 run	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 run	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 run	advmod
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 run	advmod
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 run	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 run	conj
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 families	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 families	nmod:poss
14	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 friends	cc
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 families	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not run off	would	the workers				ever		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	infinitive	the workers not said here			workers's families and friends		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to family=Initial_Location

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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