Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsm…

Fam, why could the youth not make the scythes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: not make · To what, where: scythes

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 704 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsman: he loses the king's golden ox, dodges the scythes, and wins a bride» 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 make	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 make	advmod
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fam	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 scythes	det
10	scythes	scythe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	could	the youth	the scythes					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scythe=Product

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 lacked the skill for it

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 lacked	nsubj
2	lacked	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skill	det
4	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lacked	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lack	past	he	the skill				for skill	tree rules

Option 2

he had no iron to work

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 iron	det
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 iron	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no iron					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Patient
2	work	to-infinitive	he not said here	no iron not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he was never trained as a smith

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 trained	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trained	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 trained	advmod
4	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 smith	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 smith	det
7	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not train	past · passive		he				as a smith	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as smith=Attribute

Option 4

he was never trained as a smith by any master

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 trained	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trained	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 trained	advmod
4	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 smith	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 smith	det
7	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trained	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 master	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 master	det
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not train	past · passive	any master	he				as a smith	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as smith=Attribute

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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