Test 11 · ★ · Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards th…

Mate, what did his dad say when the boy asked to go?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, boy · What happens: say, ask, go · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1794 «Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards the date tree and catches the bird» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 asked	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	his dad	Mate vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past	the boy		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the boy not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

"Fine, go"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
2	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fine	punct
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"Go then"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Go	advmod
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here				then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

"Go then, but you will surely regret it"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Go	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 regret	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 regret	cc
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 regret	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 regret	aux
8	surely	surely	ADV	_	9 regret	advmod
9	regret	regret	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Go	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 regret	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here				then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	regret in a quote	future	you	it				surely property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

"Very well"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct

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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