Test 9 · ★ · pg23661, Edmund and the Dragon, the town on the hillside:…

Why did the class not argue with the teacher?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: class · What happens: not argue

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 660 «pg23661, Edmund and the Dragon, the town on the hillside: Edmund tricks the dragon and saves her drakling» 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	6 argue	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 argue	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 argue	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 argue	advmod
6	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 teacher	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 teacher	det
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 argue	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 argue	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not argue speech: disagree	past · do-support	the class					with the teacher	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with teacher=Co-Agent

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

No idea, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 idea	punct
4	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 idea	discourse

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They feared the cane, duh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cane	det
4	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 feared	punct
6	duh	duh	INTJ	_	2 feared	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	They	the cane					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cane=Stimulus

Option 3

They just didn't care, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 care	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 care	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 care	advmod
5	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 care	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	past · do-support	They					bro vocative	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

They were too tired, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 tired	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					tired property	tree rules

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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