Test 10 · ★ · Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a curse…

Wait, who was on the bath-room duty at the devil house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: room duty

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 488 «Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a cursed son, and a soldier who never washes end in devils outwitted by devils.» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 duty	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 duty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 duty	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	10 duty	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 duty	det
7	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bath	punct
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 duty	compound
10	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
13	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	compound
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 duty	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past				the room duty		at the devil house	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 · ✓ the right answer

the young man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the old beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beggar	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beggar	amod
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the merchant's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 merchant	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the king's cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cook	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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