Test 3 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big…

wait so the youngest bro got stuck with a busted foot and a snapped bow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, bust, snap

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1222 «Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers, part 2: the bear chief's servant lures the hunters into the mountain» 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 stuck	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bro	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 bro	amod
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	nsubj
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stuck	aux:pass
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 foot	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 foot	det
10	busted	bust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 foot	amod
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bow	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bow	det
14	snapped	snap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 bow	amod
15	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 foot	conj
16	?	?	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	bust	participle		vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	snap	participle		vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 right answer

Yep, he was way behind the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 others	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 others	det
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 way	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	way		the others			tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he just took a nap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 took	advmod
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nap	det
7	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	a nap					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme

Option 3

Yep, he limped home alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 limped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 limped	nsubj
4	limped	limp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 limped	advmod
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 limped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	limp	past	he					alone, home property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yep, he was slowed down by the pain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 slowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slowed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slowed	aux:pass
5	slowed	slow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 slowed	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 pain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pain	det
9	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	past · passive	the pain	he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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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