Test 6 · ★ · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

Wait, why was Ilse so hated, tbh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, hate

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Ilse	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 Ilse	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Ilse	cop
5	Ilse	ilse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	conj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 hated	advmod
7	hated	hate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Ilse	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tbh	punct
9	tbh	tbh	ADV	_	7 hated	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	you not said here	ilse property	tree rules
3	hate	participle	you not said here	tbh property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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

She stole from every farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 farm	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 farm	det
5	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	She			every farm			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She cursed every child who ever crossed her path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cursed	nsubj
2	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cursed	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 crossed	nsubj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 crossed	advmod
7	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 child	acl:relcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 path	nmod:poss
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crossed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	past	She	every child					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	cross	past	every child	child's path			ever		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She had mean words for all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 words	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	mean words				for all	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

Option 4

She cursed the local priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cursed	nsubj
2	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 priest	det
4	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 priest	amod
5	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cursed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	past	She	the local priest					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=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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