Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

dude where did the traveller chuck the body?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: do · To what, where: traveller chuck

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chuck	det
5	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	compound
6	chuck	chuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl:unmarked
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	dude	the traveller chuck				the body obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuck=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 · ← Mova's choice

off the old bridge tonight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	off	off	ADP	_	4 bridge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bridge	amod
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bridge	obl:unmarked

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

Option 2

far out into the cold grey ocean, where the hungry fishes would find it by morning

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 out	advmod
2	out	out	ADV	_	7 ocean	advmod
3	into	into	ADP	_	7 ocean	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ocean	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ocean	amod
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ocean	amod
7	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 find	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 find	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fishes	det
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fishes	amod
12	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 find	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 find	aux
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ocean	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 find	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 morning	case
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	the hungry fishes	ocean			morning		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

into the sea for the fishes to eat, far out past the rocks and the harbour lights

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	3 sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obl
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 eat	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fishes	det
6	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 out	punct
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 out	advmod
11	out	out	ADV	_	8 eat	advmod
12	past	past	ADP	_	14 rocks	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rocks	det
14	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 out	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lights	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lights	det
17	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lights	compound
18	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rocks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive	the fishes			the sea		out property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

into the sea for the fishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	3 sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 fishes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fishes	det
6	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sea	nmod

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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