Test 5 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre…

how did the boys even see that light from the forest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys · What happens: see · To what, where: light, forest

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1089 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre kills his own daughters by mistake and the boys flee» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 see	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 light	det
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	the boys	that light		the forest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus

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

someone climbed up high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 climbed	advmod
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 climbed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	someone					high property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Little Thumb climbed a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Thumb	amod
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	Little Thumb	a tree					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme

Option 3

Little Thumb looked around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Thumb	amod
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	around	around	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look around	past	Little Thumb					around property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they just looked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	they						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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