Test 3 · ★ · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo…

Wicked, why did the actor cry at the window?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: actor · What happens: cry · To what, where: window

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cry	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 cry	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cry	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 actor	det
6	actor	actor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cry	nsubj
7	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cry	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	the actor			the window			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location

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 was sick

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	3 sick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he got booed off

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	3 booed	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 booed	aux:pass
3	booed	boo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 booed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boo off	past · passive		he					tree rules

Option 3

he forgot lines

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 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forgot	obj

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

Option 4

he got hissed off

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	3 hissed	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hissed	aux:pass
3	hissed	hiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 hissed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss off	past · passive		he					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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