Test 5 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason…

What did the old dame say when he was gutted about the shoe?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: old dame · What happens: do, say, gut · To what, where: dame · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2077 «A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason carries an old woman across a river and loses a sandal» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dame	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dame	amod
5	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 gutted	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gutted	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gutted	aux:pass
10	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 say	ccomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 shoe	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shoe	det
13	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gutted	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the old dame			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	gut	past · passive		dame	about the shoe	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

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

Oh, what a shame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shame	det
5	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj

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

Option 2

Don't worry, boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 worry	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 worry	advmod
3	worry	worry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not worry	imperative · do-support	you not said here	boy					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

It was a bad omen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 omen	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 omen	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 omen	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 omen	amod
5	omen	omen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a bad omen					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Losing it was a lucky sign

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sign	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Losing	obj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sign	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sign	det
5	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sign	amod
6	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund		it					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is a	past	Losing	a lucky sign					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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