Test 6 · ★ · Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plag…

Ngl, what did he sniff to stop catching it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: sniff, stop, catch · To what, where: it

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sniff	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 sniff	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sniff	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sniff	nsubj
6	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stop	mark
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sniff	xcomp
9	catching	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stop	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 catching	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sniff	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sniff	past · do-support	Ngl		Ngl vocative	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	Ngl not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	catch	gerund	Ngl not said here	it		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Herbal salve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Herbal	herbal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 salve	amod
2	salve	salve	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Strong spirits mixed with garlic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spirits	amod
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 spirits	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 garlic	case
5	garlic	garlic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mixed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle		Strong spirits not said here				with garlic	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with garlic=Co-Patient

Option 3

Tar and smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 smoke	cc
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tar	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Strong spirits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spirits	amod
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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