Test 4 · ★ · Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wif…

what's the boy's deal, is he mint or proper dead?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 763 «Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wife wishes for a red-and-white child, and her stepson's life turns dark» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 boy	case
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mint	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mint	cop
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mint	nsubj
10	mint	mint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deal	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 dead	cc
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dead	amod
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mint	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the boy's deal		tree rules
2	is	present	boy		mint property	tree rules
3	be		boy not said here			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 · ✓ the right answer

the stepmum kills him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stepmum	det
2	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	nsubj
3	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	the stepmum	him = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

he gets better

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 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	he					good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

he goes to school

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 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	he			school			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he runs off to the woods

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 runs	nsubj
2	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 runs	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	present	he					to the woods result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wood=Result

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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