Test 13 · ★ · Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards th…

Sick, what did the head-man do when he saw the dates?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, man · What happens: sick, do, see · To what, where: dates

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sick	conj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 saw	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 do	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dates	det
14	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 saw	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	do	past · do-support	you not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	man	the dates	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer date=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Beat a big drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drum	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drum	amod
4	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	imperative	you not said here	a big drum					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme

Option 2

Blew a loud horn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horn	det
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horn	amod
4	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past		a loud horn					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient

Option 3

Beat a big drum to call the whole town out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drum	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drum	amod
4	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beat	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 call	mark
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Beat	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 town	amod
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
10	out	out	ADV	_	6 call	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	imperative	you not said here	a big drum					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme
2	call	to-infinitive	you not said here	the whole town				out property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent town=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Sent for the guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 guards	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guards	det
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle						for the guards	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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