Test 3 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

Did the husband like the honey, or was he just being well fussy?

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

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» 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 husband	det
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 honey	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 honey	det
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 husband	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fussy	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 fussy	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fussy	cop
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fussy	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	14 fussy	advmod
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fussy	cop
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 fussy	advmod
14	fussy	fussy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Did	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the husband				like the honey	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality
2	is	past	husband					fussy, well property	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 liked it lots

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 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	obj
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	he	it					tree rules

Option 2

he was just fussy

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 fussy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fussy	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 fussy	advmod
4	fussy	fussy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					fussy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he was being well fussy

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	5 fussy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fussy	cop
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fussy	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fussy	advmod
5	fussy	fussy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					fussy, well property	tree rules

Option 4

he hated the taste, mate

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 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 taste	det
4	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taste	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	he	the taste and mate					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer taste=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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