Test 10 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a b…

Lowkey, what did the horse say about going home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: do, say, go · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 682 «Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a boy saves a magician from wolves and wins his horse» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	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 Lowkey	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 going	mark
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 say	ccomp
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 going	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Lowkey	the horse		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Lowkey			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	gerund			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Mother would cry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cry	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cry	aux
3	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	would	Mother						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Father would ignore him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ignore	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ignore	aux
3	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	would	Father	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Father would beat him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 beat	aux
3	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	would	Father	him = he					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

Option 4

Father would scold him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scold	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 scold	aux
3	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	would	Father	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.

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