Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 2…
what happened to the girl who trod on the loaf, tho?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: happen, tread · To what, where: loaf
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1026 «Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 237: the Moor-woman shows the man her cupboard of poetry and tells him about the new Will-o'-the-Wisps born in the marsh» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 girl | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 trod | nsubj |
| 7 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 girl | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 loaf | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 loaf | det |
| 10 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trod | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tho | punct |
| 12 | tho | tho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loaf | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | to the girl | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tread | past | the girl | the loaf and tho | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on loaf=Trajectory |
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
She drowned
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drowned | nsubj |
| 2 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past | She | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
She sank straight into the earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sank | nsubj |
| 2 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 sank | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 earth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 earth | det |
| 6 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sank | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | She | the earth | straight property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
She fell into the marsh pool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 pool | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pool | det |
| 5 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pool | compound |
| 6 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | She | into the marsh pool result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pool=Result |
Option 4
She was carried off by the wind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux:pass |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 carried | compound:prt |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 wind | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past · passive | the wind | She | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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