Test 12 · ★ · Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maid…

bruh how did tiidu make a stack of cash

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: tiidu · What happens: make · To what, where: stack

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 677 «Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maiden is carried off, and lazy Tiidu finds his pipes» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 make	discourse
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
4	tiidu	tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stack	det
7	stack	stack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cash	case
9	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	tiidu	a stack of cash					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stack=Product

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

he begged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he sold his flute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 flute	nmod:poss
4	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	he	his flute					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme

Option 3

he played at weddings nightly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 weddings	case
4	weddings	wedding	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 played	obl
5	nightly	nightly	ADV	_	2 played	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	he			weddings		nightly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

people paid him for playing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	obj
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 playing	mark
5	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 paid	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	people	him = he					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset
2	play	gerund	people not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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