Test 12 · ★ · Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a curse…

Bro, what did the grandfather devil want to throw his grandchild in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, want, throw · To what, where: grandfather devil, grandchild

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 devil	det
6	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 devil	compound
7	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 throw	mark
10	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grandchild	nmod:poss
12	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 throw	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	10 throw	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the grandfather devil	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=Eventuality
2	want	present	Bro		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	Bro not said here	Bro's grandchild	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandchild=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

a lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lake	det
2	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a dungeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dungeon	det
2	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a snowdrift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snowdrift	det
2	snowdrift	snowdrift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

boiling pitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 pitch	amod
2	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: 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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