Test 14 · ★ · Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60: the bailiff chases A…

wait, what did Andras say the weakest Lapp boy could do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Andras, weakest Lapp boy · What happens: wait, say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1194 «Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60: the bailiff chases Andras, who outwits him with reindeer magic and a daring leap» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Andras	Andras	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
8	weakest	weak	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 boy	amod
9	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 boy	compound
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Andras	tree rules
3	do	could	the weakest Lapp boy	vn act-114-1 «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

Jump the great river on foot in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 river	amod
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jump	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 foot	case
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jump	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 winter	case
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	imperative	you not said here	the great river		foot	winter		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent river=Theme on foot=Trajectory

Option 2

Swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swim	swim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Jump the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jump	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	imperative	you not said here	the river					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory

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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