Test 6 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian ou…
How did the ship get all the way to the beach, dude?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ship · What happens: get · To what, where: way
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second giant» 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 | 5 get | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 way | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 beach | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beach | det |
| 11 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dude | punct |
| 13 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beach | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | the ship | all way | to the beach and dude result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to beach=Result |
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
Sailed for seven days across the sea, no bother at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sailed | obl |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sailed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bother | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 bother | det |
| 10 | bother | bother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sea | appos |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Sailed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | participle | the sea | day | at all | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across sea=Trajectory |
Option 2
Rowed for seven days, no bother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rowed | row | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rowed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bother | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 bother | det |
| 7 | bother | bother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | participle | no bother | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Sailed for seven days, no bother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sailed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bother | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 bother | det |
| 7 | bother | bother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sailed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | participle | no bother | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Sailed fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Sailed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | participle | fast property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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