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Tom from Cardiff: «Tegumai gave Taffy a cwtch after the rain.» (cwtch = cuddle) What did Tegumai really do when the rain came?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom, rain · What happens: give, do, come · To what, where: cwtch, Taffy, Tegumai

This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 89 «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began» 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

Sentence 1: Tom from Cardiff: «Tegumai gave Taffy a cwtch after the rain.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gave	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Cardiff	case
3	Cardiff	Cardiff	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tom	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
6	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gave	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cwtch	det
10	cwtch	cwtch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 rain	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rain	det
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	past	Tom from Cardiff	a cwtch	Taffy		after the rain		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent taffy=Recipient cwtch=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: (cwtch = cuddle) What did Tegumai really do when the rain came?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 cwtch	punct
2	cwtch	cwtch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 What	nsubj
3	=	=	SYM	_	4 cuddle	punct
4	cuddle	cuddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cwtch	appos
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 cuddle	punct
6	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 What	acl:relcl
8	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 did	parataxis
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rain	det
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 do	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Tegumai					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tegumai=Eventuality
2	do	present							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the rain						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Got up and danced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Got	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 danced	cc
4	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	participle							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	dance	participle							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Laughed and ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ran	cc
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Laughed	conj
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run off	past							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Got up and danced all round the Cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADV	_	1 Got	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 danced	cc
4	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Got	conj
5	all	all	ADV	_	4 danced	advmod
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 Cave	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cave	det
8	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 danced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	dance	past				the Cave		all property	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round cave=Trajectory

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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