Test 14 · ★ · Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone t…

real talk, what did the men do on the sand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: men · What happens: do · To what, where: real talk, sand

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 2066 «Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone to the palace and Quicksilver gives him a magic flower» 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 sand	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sand	det
11	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		real talk					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Eventuality
2	do	present	the men			the sand			vn act-114-1 «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

waited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

sat and sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sang	cc
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	past							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

waited and prayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 prayed	cc
3	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 waited	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pray	past							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	participle							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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