Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

Ok, what did Peter tell his wife he was making?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: tell, make · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	6 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 making	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 making	aux
11	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 wife	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Peter		Peter's wife				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient wife=Topic
2	make	past · progressive	Peter	Peter's wife not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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 · ← Mova's choice

His house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 house	nmod:poss
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His will

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 will	nmod:poss
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 3

A cart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cart	det
2	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grave	det
2	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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