Test 12 · ★ · Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in…

Innit, who dug the hole out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: dig out · To what, where: hole

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1796 «Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in a honey pit, escapes through a scorpion's hole, and is caught at the baths» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dug	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dug	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dug	nsubj
4	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hole	det
6	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dug	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	4 dug	compound:prt
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dug	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig out	past	Innit	the hole					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=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

His brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Hassebu with his knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hassebu	Hassebu	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 knife	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 knife	nmod:poss
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hassebu	nmod

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

Option 3

A scorpion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 scorpion	det
2	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A passing wood-cutter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cutter	det
2	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 cutter	amod
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cutter	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 wood	punct
5	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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