Test 5 · ★ · Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4…

Why did Nurse let the kids go to the Zoo, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: let, go · To what, where: Zoo

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 let	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	compound
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kids	det
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 let	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Zoo	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Zoo	det
10	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 then	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 let	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support					then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	go	present	the kids			the Zoo			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to zoo=Initial_Location

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

Wednesday is the end of the week there, so the Zoo is quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 end	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 end	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 week	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 week	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 quiet	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 quiet	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Zoo	det
12	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 quiet	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 quiet	cop
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 end	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wednesday	the end			week		tree rules
2	is	present	the Zoo					quiet property	tree rules

Option 2

Nurse thought it was a treat for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 treat	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 treat	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 treat	det
6	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 treat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Nurse						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Nurse	a treat				for them = they	tree rules

Option 3

Wednesday is the end of the week there and Nurse had a free afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 end	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 end	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 week	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 week	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Nurse	cc
10	Nurse	Nurse	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 end	conj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 afternoon	det
13	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 afternoon	amod
14	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wednesday	the end and Nurse			week		tree rules
2	have	past	the end and Nurse				afternoon		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Wednesday is the end of the week there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 end	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 end	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 week	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 end	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wednesday	the end		there	week		tree rules

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