Test 13 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 4…

wait so what did the kid use to tie everything up

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, kid · What happens: wait, use, tie up · To what, where: everything

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 703 «Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 43: the youth hides the pigs and sheep and tricks the herdsman» 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 use	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 use	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 use	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	nsubj
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tie	mark
9	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 use	advcl
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 tie	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 tie	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	past · do-support	the kid		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
3	tie up	to-infinitive	the kid not said here	everything	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

cord and rope, he's crafty af

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 rope	cc
3	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cord	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 af	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 af	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 af	cop
7	crafty	crafty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 af	amod
8	af	af	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cord	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	crafty af					tree rules

Option 2

string, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 string	punct
3	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 string	discourse

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

Option 3

just rope, crafty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 rope	advmod
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crafty	punct
4	crafty	crafty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rope	amod

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

Option 4

wire and chain, he's crafty af

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 chain	cc
3	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wire	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 af	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 af	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 af	cop
7	crafty	crafty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 af	amod
8	af	af	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wire	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	crafty af					tree rules

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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