Test 3 · ★ · fairy tales (pg7277), The Little Soldier, part 37: John bu…

how did john even lose at cards with that purse

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: john · What happens: lose · To what, where: cards

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1900 «fairy tales (pg7277), The Little Soldier, part 37: John buys a golden coach, plays cards with the King, and loses his purse and cloak to Ludovine» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 lose	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 john	aux
3	john	JohnSchwartzenburg@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT	X	_	5 lose	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 lose	advmod
5	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 cards	case
7	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lose	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 purse	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 purse	det
10	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	john			cards		with that purse	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at card=Eventuality

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

The purse was empty the whole time so he had nothing to bet with, bruh

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 purse	det
2	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 empty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 empty	cop
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 empty	obl:unmarked
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 empty	advcl
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bet	mark
13	bet	bet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 nothing	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	13 bet	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bruh	punct
16	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 empty	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the purse		time	empty property	tree rules
2	have	past	he	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	bet	to-infinitive	he not said here	nothing not said here			vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The King had a magic deck, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deck	det
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deck	amod
6	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
8	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 had	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the King	a magic deck					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deck=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he lost every game on purpose, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 game	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 purpose	case
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct
9	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 lost	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Cause	every game		purpose			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality

Option 4

Cause he lost every game on purpose so the King would like him, bruh

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 game	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 purpose	case
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 like	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 like	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lost	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 like	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
15	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 lost	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Cause	every game		purpose			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
2	like	would	the King	Cause					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=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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