Test 8 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 1: a wicked…

did the soldier's plan work or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldier · What happens: do, work · To what, where: plan work

This is test 8 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 soldier	case
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	compound
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 work	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the soldier's plan work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	work		the soldier						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

it totally worked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 worked	nsubj
2	totally	totally	ADV	_	3 worked	advmod
3	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	it					totally property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

they caught him

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 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	they	him = he					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

it failed badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 failed	nsubj
2	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 failed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	it					badly property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

it totally failed, they caught him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 failed	nsubj
2	totally	totally	ADV	_	3 failed	advmod
3	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caught	nsubj
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 failed	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	it					totally property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	catch	past	they	him = he					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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