Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pasto…

why's the rampart got a child buried under it tho

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rampart · What happens: be, get, bury · To what, where: rampart, child

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 791 «Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pastor's dream of sinners, then an old maid watches children play while an angel carries a dead child to heaven» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 rampart	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rampart	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rampart	det
4	rampart	rampart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
8	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 child	acl
9	under	under	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 buried	obl
11	tho	tho	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present		the rampart		tree rules
2	get	past	the rampart	a child		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
3	bury	participle		a child not said here	rampart	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under it=Destination

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

cause a kid died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kid	det
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	die	past	a kid						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cause the story says a man lured a kid in with candy and toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lured	nsubj
7	lured	lure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kid	det
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lured	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	7 lured	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 candy	case
12	candy	candy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lured	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 toys	cc
14	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 candy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	say speech: assert	present	the story			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lure in	past	a man	a kid	with candy and toys	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient

Option 3

cause some kid got tricked by a man with sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tricked	aux
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 kid	det
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tricked	aux:pass
5	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 sweets	case
10	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	infinitive · passive	a man	some kid				with sweets	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cause the old story says a kid got lured in with sweets and toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	amod
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kid	det
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lured	nsubj
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lured	aux:pass
9	lured	lure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 says	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sweets	case
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 sweets	case
12	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lured	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 toys	cc
14	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sweets	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cause	infinitive				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	say speech: assert	present	the old story			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lure	past · passive		a kid	sweets and toys	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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