Test 4 · ★ · Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the h…
Lol, what did the hare wish for when he was stuck in the tent?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, be · To what, where: hare wish, tent
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wish | det |
| 6 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wish | compound |
| 7 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 stuck | mark |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 stuck | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stuck | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stuck | cop |
| 12 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tent | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tent | det |
| 15 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stuck | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the hare wish | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | past | he | the tent | stuck property | tree rules |
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
A drop of rain on his net
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 drop | det |
| 2 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 rain | case |
| 4 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drop | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 net | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 net | nmod:poss |
| 7 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drop | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A cool breeze through the hole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 breeze | det |
| 2 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 breeze | amod |
| 3 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 hole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breeze | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A spark to land on his net
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spark | det |
| 2 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 land | mark |
| 4 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spark | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 net | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 net | nmod:poss |
| 7 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 land | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | to-infinitive | his net | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on net=Destination |
Option 4
To be free
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 free | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 free | cop |
| 3 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | free property | tree rules |
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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