Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, t…

Bruv the shoemaker's boy lost a slipper mid-run

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv boy · What happens: lose · To what, where: slipper mid-run

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1003 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three dogs and the soldier's escape» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boy	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shoemaker	det
3	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 shoemaker	case
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	nsubj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mid-run	det
8	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mid-run	compound
9	mid-run	mid-run	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the shoemaker's Bruv boy	a slipper mid-run					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mid-run=Eventuality

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

Yeah, it landed in the muddy street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 landed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 landed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 landed	nsubj
4	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 street	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 street	det
7	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 street	amod
8	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 landed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	it			the muddy street			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in street=Destination

Option 2

Yeah, it hit the old man's wooden gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gate	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 man	case
9	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gate	amod
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	it	the old man's wooden gate					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it flew right at the soldier's window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soldier	det
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 window	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 soldier	case
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	it			the soldier's window		right property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it flew right at the window of the soldier's house and he caught it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soldier	det
11	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 soldier	case
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 window	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 caught	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 caught	nsubj
16	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	it			the window of the soldier's house		right property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location
2	catch	past	he	house					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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