Test 4 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, p…

did everybody just leave him there alone?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, leave · To what, where: everybody, him

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 341 «Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, part 1: Alfred shares his last bread and wine, then sees a vision» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	advcl
2	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 did	obj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 leave	advmod
4	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 leave	advmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 leave	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		everybody					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Eventuality
2	leave	present		him = he		there		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, all of them went fishing except the king, queen and one servant

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 went	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 all	nmod
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 went	xcomp
8	except	except	ADP	_	10 king	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fishing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 queen	punct
12	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 king	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 servant	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 servant	nummod
15	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 king	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	all						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fish	gerund	all not said here					except the king and queen and one servant	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nah, everyone in the whole household went fishing on the boats, leaving only the king, queen, one servant and a dog behind

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 went	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 household	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 household	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 household	amod
7	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 everyone	nmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 went	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 boats	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boats	det
12	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fishing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 leaving	punct
14	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fishing	conj
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 king	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaving	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 queen	punct
19	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 king	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 servant	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 servant	nummod
22	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaving	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dog	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dog	det
25	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 servant	conj
26	behind	behind	ADV	_	14 leaving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	everyone				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fish	gerund	everyone not said here		the boats		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on boat=Location
3	leave	gerund	everyone not said here	the king and queen		behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, all the men went off to sea except the old guard at the gate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 men	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 went	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 sea	case
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	except	except	ADP	_	13 guard	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 guard	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 guard	amod
13	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 gate	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	all men			the gate		to sea; except the old guard	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at gate=Location

Option 4

nah, just the cook left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 cook	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cook	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		the cook not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/341-pg18442-part1/t4/