Test 1 · ★ · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

yo, where did Alonzo go swimming at night, like the actual spot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alonzo · What happens: go, swim

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 go	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swimming	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spot	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 spot	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spot	det
13	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spot	amod
14	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	Alonzo						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	swim	gerund	Alonzo not said here				night		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 little pond behind the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pond	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pond	amod
3	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pond	nmod

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

Option 2

the creepy deep pool by the river, right where the ferns hang over the water

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pool	det
2	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pool	amod
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pool	amod
4	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hang	nsubj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pool	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hang	punct
9	right	right	ADV	_	13 hang	advmod
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 hang	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ferns	det
12	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hang	nsubj
13	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	present	the creepy deep pool by the river			the water		right property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the creepy deep pool by the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pool	det
2	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pool	amod
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pool	amod
4	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pool	nmod

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

Option 4

the spooky lake near the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lake	det
2	spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lake	amod
3	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 mill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mill	det
6	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lake	nmod

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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