Test 9 · ★ · English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury th…
Long story, but the master says don't touch what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: master · What happens: say, not touch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 story | amod |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 says | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 master | det |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 touch | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 touch | advmod |
| 10 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 touch | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not touch | infinitive · do-support | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Co-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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
the silver bowl, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bowl | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowl | compound |
| 3 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fam | punct |
| 5 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowl | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the covered dish, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dish | det |
| 2 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dish | amod |
| 3 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fam | punct |
| 5 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dish | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
the covered dish on the table, and don't ask why, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dish | det |
| 2 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dish | amod |
| 3 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dish | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ask | cc |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ask | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 ask | advmod |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 ask | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fam | punct |
| 14 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ask | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask | infinitive · do-support | the covered dish on the table | fam vocative | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
the sealed jar, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jar | det |
| 2 | sealed | seal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 jar | amod |
| 3 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bruv | punct |
| 5 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jar | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seal | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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