Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shel…

Lol, what did the voice from the rock tell him to do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: voice, him, rock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1926 «Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shelters with a grumpy old man, a stag carries him underground, and he frees a maiden from a glass coffin» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
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	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 voice	det
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 rock	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rock	det
9	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obl
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	the voice			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	present		him = he	the rock	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

enter now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 enter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	imperative	you not said here				now		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

stay outside and rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 stay	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 rest	cc
4	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 stay	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rest	infinitive	you not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

step in without fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	1 step	compound:prt
3	without	without	ADP	_	4 fear	case
4	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 step	nmod

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

Option 4

go inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	inside	inside	ADV	_	1 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					inside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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