Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious l…

Did the master get back in time, or was it a mardy wait?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: master · What happens: get back, be · To what, where: mardy wait

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1953 «English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious lad calls up a demon and nearly drowns in water» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 master	det
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 time	case
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wait	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 wait	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wait	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wait	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wait	det
13	mardy	mardy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wait	amod
14	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past · do-support	the master				time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	master	a mardy wait					tree rules

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

a bit too late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 bit	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

just in time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	3 time	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 time	case
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

too late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 late	advmod
2	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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