Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays d…

mate, where did the little fish flop about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little fish · What happens: be, flop

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flop	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flop	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 flop	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 where	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 flop	nsubj
8	flop	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADV	_	8 flop	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 flop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						where property	tree rules
2	flop	present	the little fish					mate vocative; about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

on the wet sand by a wide river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	4 sand	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sand	det
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sand	amod
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 river	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 river	det
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 river	amod
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sand	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

on the sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

in water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	2 water	case
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

in the mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 mud	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mud	det
3	mud	mud	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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