Test 1 · ★ · Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the h…

Mate, how does the hare get over the river with all them whales?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, get · To what, where: hare, river

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1218 «Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the hare brings fire home, the turtle goes to war for his bride» 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	7 get	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 does	advmod
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hare	det
6	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 whales	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 whales	nsubj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 all	nmod
14	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the hare					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Eventuality
2	get	present	Mate			the river		with whales	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over river=Destination

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

He leaps on each whale's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaps	nsubj
2	leaps	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 whale	det
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 whale	case
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leap	present	He			each whale's back			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory

Option 2

He walks on the whales' backs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walks	nsubj
2	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 backs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whales	det
5	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 backs	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 whales	case
7	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	He			the whales's backs			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

On a log

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 log	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 log	det
3	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He hops from whale to whale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hops	nsubj
2	hops	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 whale	case
4	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hops	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 whale	case
6	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop	present	He		whale			from whale	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to whale=Destination

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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