Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel rev…

Okay, what did the young master do when he got ill?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, get · To what, where: young master

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1950 «English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel reveals the girl in rushes, and her father learns how much she loved him» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	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	7 master	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 master	amod
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 got	aux
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 got	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the young master					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Eventuality
2	get	present · do-support	he					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

ate nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		nothing					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

Option 2

pined in his room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pined	pine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 room	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 room	nmod:poss
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pine	participle				his room			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

called for a doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 doctor	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle						for a doctor	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for doctor=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

stayed in bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 bed	case
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past				bed			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location

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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