Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

What did the stranger tell him to do, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stranger · What happens: tell, do, though · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» 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	5 tell	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the stranger	him = he	tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the stranger not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	though	infinitive	the stranger not said here		tree rules

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

Cover up the big stone and take the gold somewhere else entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Cover	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stone	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stone	amod
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cover	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 take	cc
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Cover	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gold	det
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 take	advmod
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 somewhere	advmod
12	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	7 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover up	imperative	you not said here	the big stone					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=Destination
2	take	infinitive	you not said here	the gold				entirely, somewhere property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cover up the stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Cover	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cover	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover up	imperative	you not said here	the stone					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=Destination

Option 3

Cover up the stone with dirt and leave it be for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Cover	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cover	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 dirt	case
6	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cover	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 leave	cc
8	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Cover	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 leave	obj
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 leave	xcomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 good	case
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 be	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover up	imperative	you not said here	the stone	with dirt	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Destination with dirt=Theme
2	leave	infinitive	you not said here	stone		tree rules
3	be	infinitive	stone not said here		for good	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Count the coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coins	det
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Count	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	the coins					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=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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