Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious l…

Oi, why was the book open in the first place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: book

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 book	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 book	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 book	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 book	det
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Oi	appos
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 book	amod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 place	amod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 open	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the book					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 · ✓ the right answer

master forgot to lock it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 lock	mark
4	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forgot	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lock	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	master						tree rules
2	not lock	to-infinitive	master not said here	master					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

the lad picked the lock up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picked	nsubj
3	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lock	det
5	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picked	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	3 picked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	the lad	the lock					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Topic

Option 3

it was left unlocked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	aux:pass
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	unlocked	unlock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		it					tree rules
2	unlock	participle							vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

forgot it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past		it					tree rules

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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