Test 4 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

where even did the parents drop them, was it near the town or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: parents · What happens: do, drop, be · To what, where: town, them, it

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» 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	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 did	advmod
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parents	det
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drop	nsubj
6	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drop	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 it	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 it	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	parataxis
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 town	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past			the town	tree rules
2	drop	present	the parents	them = they		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	is a	past		it		tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

the thickest, darkest part of the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 part	det
2	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 part	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thickest	punct
4	darkest	dark	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod

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

Option 2

the middle of the big dark wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 middle	det
2	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wood	amod
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wood	amod
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 middle	nmod

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

Option 3

way deep in the creepy woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	deep	deep	ADV	_	1 way	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 woods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
5	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woods	amod
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 way	nmod

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

Option 4

near the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	near	near	ADP	_	3 town	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 town	det
3	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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