Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

Yo, why was Peter so sad about the babies?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Peter

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sad	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Peter	cop
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sad	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 sad	advmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 babies	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 babies	det
10	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sad	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Peter					tree rules

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

They fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	They						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sick	sick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They all died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 died	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 They	det
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	They						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

They went away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	They					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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