Test 8 · ★ · Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114:…

no lie, what did the soldiers do in that quiet town?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lie, soldiers · What happens: do · To what, where: quiet town

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 903 «Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114: Greenland, the old maid's coffin, Pompeii» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 lie	det
2	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldiers	det
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 town	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 town	det
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 town	amod
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	no lie						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the soldiers			that quiet town			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Marched through the town at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marched	march	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 town	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 town	det
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Marched	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dawn	case
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Marched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	participle				the town	dawn		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through town=Trajectory

Option 2

Gambled away their pay playing cards and dice all night long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gambled	gamble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Gambled	advmod
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pay	nmod:poss
4	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gambled	obl:agent
5	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 pay	acl
6	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 playing	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dice	cc
8	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cards	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gambled	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 night	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gamble away	participle			night	away property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	play	gerund	their pay not said here	cards and dice			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme
3	pay		their = they				nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Sang songs in the quiet square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sang	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 square	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 square	det
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 square	amod
6	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past		songs		the quiet square			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Played cards and dice all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cards	amod
2	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 dice	cc
4	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cards	conj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cards	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	participle							vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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