Test 14 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingal…

Why'd the kids stop their games, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: stop · To what, where: games

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stop	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	nsubj
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 games	nmod:poss
7	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	5 stop	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the kids	kids's games					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector game=Eventuality

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

To watch the sunset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 watch	mark
2	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sunset	det
4	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	to-infinitive					sunset		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 eat	mark
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Because it rained

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 rained	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rained	nsubj
3	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	past	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To listen to the birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 listen	mark
2	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 birds	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 listen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	to-infinitive						to the birds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bird=Theme

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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