Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three a…

Fam, what did the tiger say he was dying of, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: do, say, die · To what, where: tiger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Fam	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tiger	det
6	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dying	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dying	aux
10	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 say	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 dying	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cap	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 cap	det
14	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Fam	the tiger	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Fam		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die	past · progressive	Fam		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

An old wound that never healed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wound	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wound	amod
3	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 healed	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 healed	advmod
6	healed	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wound	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not heal	past	a old wound						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Hunger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Being starved for days in a dark pit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 starved	aux:pass
2	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 days	case
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 starved	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 pit	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pit	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pit	amod
8	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 starved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	gerund · passive				a dark pit	day		tree rules

Option 4

Fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	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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