Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…
Lol, what did the boys do with Peter's money?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys · What happens: do
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 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 | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boys | det |
| 6 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 money | case |
| 9 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 money | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Peter | case |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | the boys | with Peter's money | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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
Spent all the money on sweets at the fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 money | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 money | det |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spent | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sweets | case |
| 6 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Spent | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 fair | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fair | det |
| 9 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | participle | all money | on sweets goal; at the fair | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on sweet=Goal |
Option 2
Hid it under the old barn floor for years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hid | obj |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 floor | amod |
| 6 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floor | compound |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hid | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | it | the old barn floor | year | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under floor=Location |
Option 3
Gambled it all away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gambled | gamble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Gambled | obj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 away | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Gambled | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gamble | past | it | away property | vn risk-94 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Pivot |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Played pranks on him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pranks | amod |
| 2 | pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pranks | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | participle | 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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