Test 8 · ★ · Beside the Fire, Guleesh, part 4: the girl is struck dumb…

What did Guleesh tell his ma about where he'd been?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Guleesh · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: ma · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ma	nmod:poss
6	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	iobj
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	11 been	mark
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 been	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 been	nsubj
10	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 been	aux
11	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 tell	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Guleesh		Guleesh's ma				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ma=Recipient what=Topic
2	be	past · perfect	Guleesh						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Walking round the fields all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	round	round	ADP	_	4 fields	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fields	det
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Walking	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund				the fields	night		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round field=Trajectory

Option 2

Sleeping by the old ditch outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 ditch	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ditch	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ditch	amod
5	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sleeping	obl
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 Sleeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund						by the old ditch; outside property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Out in the bog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Out	out	ADV	_	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 bog	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bog	det
4	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Out	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Kipping at the foot of the ditch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kipping	kip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 foot	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 foot	det
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kipping	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 ditch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ditch	det
7	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 foot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kip	gerund				the foot of the ditch			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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