Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bu…

bro why did the kid get sick, like what actually happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: get, happen

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 295 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bush grows from a teapot and shows an old couple's golden day» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	vocative
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 happened	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 happened	mark
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happened	nsubj
11	actually	actually	ADV	_	12 happened	advmod
12	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the kid					bro vocative; sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	happen	past						actually property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

cause he played in the rain all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 played	nsubj
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 rain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rain	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obl:unmarked
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 played	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	cause			the rain	day	long property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he got bitten by a dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bitten	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bitten	aux:pass
3	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 dog	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bitten	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past · passive	a dog	he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3

he was out too long in the snow and his nose went red and he coughed all night

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
3	out	out	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 went	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 snow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nose	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nose	nmod:poss
11	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snow	conj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 went	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 coughed	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 coughed	nsubj
16	coughed	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 coughed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			long, out property	tree rules
2	go	past		the snow and his nose		red property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in snow=Location
3	cough	past	he		night		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cause he got his feet soaked in the gutter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obj
6	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 got	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 gutter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gutter	det
9	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soaked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	cause	cause's feet					tree rules
2	soak	participle	cause's feet not said here					in the gutter	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in gutter=Theme

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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