Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

lol so the wolf gave up too, was he proper knackered or did he just laugh?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolf · What happens: give up, be, laugh

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» 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	_	5 gave	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 gave	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt
7	too	too	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knackered	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 knackered	cop
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knackered	nsubj
11	proper	properly	ADV	_	12 knackered	advmod
12	knackered	knacker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 laugh	cc
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 laugh	aux
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 laugh	nsubj
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 laugh	advmod
17	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 knackered	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	give up	past	the wolf		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	wolf	knacker, properly property	tree rules
3	laugh	past · do-support	wolf		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 · ✓ the right answer

he lay down to rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 rest	mark
5	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	he					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he was so tired he lay down and fell asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	ccomp
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 lay	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fell	cc
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	conj
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	tired property	tree rules
2	lie down	past	he	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	he not said here	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

he sat down to cry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cry	mark
5	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he lay down in the road to rest and sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 rest	mark
8	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lay	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sleep	cc
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 rest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	he	the road	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location
2	rest	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	infinitive	he not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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