Test 3 · ★ · Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a curse…
Bro, why did the wife jump in the ice-hole?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: wife jump, ice hole
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | 4 did | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jump | det |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jump | compound |
| 7 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hole | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ice | punct |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jump | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the wife jump | the ice hole | Bro vocative | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Eventuality |
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
to grab the horse, dude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 grab | mark |
| 2 | grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grab | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dude | punct |
| 6 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horse | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | to-infinitive | the horse and dude | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
Option 2
cause she was bored, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bored | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bored | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bored | cop |
| 4 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bored | punct |
| 6 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 bored | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cause | bored property | tree rules |
Option 3
to find the priest, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 priest | det |
| 4 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bro | punct |
| 6 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 priest | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | the priest and bro | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Topic |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
to save her hubby, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 save | mark |
| 2 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hubby | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hubby | hubby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 save | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cap | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 cap | det |
| 7 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hubby | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | to-infinitive | her hubby | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hubby=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/488-pg22373-part80/t3/