Test 2 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 1: a wicked…

wait, why was the sun all moody anyway?

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

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 693 «Orange Fairy Book, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 1: a wicked stepfather, a milk-brook, and a golden cage» 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	_	6 sun	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sun	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sun	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 moody	det
8	moody	moody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sun	amod
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 moody	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the sun					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

he had grown tired of shining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grown	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grown	aux
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grown	xcomp
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 shining	mark
6	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tired	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect	he					tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shine	gerund	he not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he was too lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	aux
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nothing left to do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 nothing	acl
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle							tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he felt very lonely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 lonely	advmod
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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