Test 2 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

ngl, did the cow just randomly sit down?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, cow · What happens: do, sit down · To what, where: cow

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2059 «A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows a brindled cow until it lies down and he chooses a home» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 sit	advmod
7	randomly	randomly	ADV	_	8 sit	advmod
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cow	acl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sit	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ngl	the cow					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Eventuality
2	sit down	infinitive	the cow not said here					randomly property	vn assuming_position-50 «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

no, the magic in her made her choose the spot deliberately

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 magic	det
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 magic	nmod
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spot	det
11	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choose	obj
12	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	_	9 choose	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the magic in her	her = she					tree rules
2	choose	infinitive	her = she not said here	the spot				deliberately property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme

Option 2

no, she was ordered to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 ordered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ordered	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ordered	aux:pass
5	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	5 ordered	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past · passive		she					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

no, she chose that spot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 chose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chose	nsubj
4	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 spot	det
6	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	she	that spot					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yes, she sat because the god told her to rest there at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 god	det
7	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 rest	mark
11	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 rest	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	she			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the god	her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	rest not said to happen	to-infinitive	the god not said here		last; there	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=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.

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