Test 7 · ★ · Beside the Fire, Guleesh, part 4: the girl is struck dumb…

How did she let them know she couldn't talk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, them · What happens: let, know, not talk · To what, where: them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1985 «Beside the Fire, Guleesh, part 4: the girl is struck dumb and Guleesh hides her at the priest's house» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 let	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 talk	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 talk	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 talk	advmod
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 know	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	she	them = they	tree rules
2	know	infinitive	them = they not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not talk	could	she		vn talk-37.5 «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 · ← Mova's choice

She tapped her chin with a finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tapped	nsubj
2	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 chin	nmod:poss
4	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tapped	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 finger	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 finger	det
7	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tap	past	She	her chin				with a finger	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chin=Patient with finger=Instrument

Option 2

She shook her head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shook	nsubj
2	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	She	her head					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Put her finger on her tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 finger	nmod:poss
3	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 tongue	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tongue	nmod:poss
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	her finger		her tongue			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme on tongue=Destination

Option 4

She waved at them both slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	obl
5	both	both	ADV	_	2 waved	advmod
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 waved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	She					at them = they; both, slowly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at they=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1985-pg7885-part4/t7/