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Test 3 · ★ · English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury th…

Proper gutted, innit, that the new Moon never came? What did folk do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new Moon, folk · What happens: gut, not come, do

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 251 «English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury the Moon in the bog, and the marsh folk find her again» 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

Sentence 1: Proper gutted, innit, that the new Moon never came?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 gutted	advmod
2	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 gutted	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Moon	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Moon	amod
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gutted	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle						properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not come	past	the new Moon						vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

Sentence 2: What did folk do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	folk						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

they sent for the priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 priest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 priest	det
5	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	they					for the priest	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they went to the Wise Woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 Woman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Woman	det
5	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Woman	amod
6	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they					to the Wise Woman	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location

Option 3

they cried loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 cried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	they					loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they asked the miller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miller	det
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	they	the miller					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent miller=Recipient

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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