Test 2 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolveri…
proper cheeky, but what did the rock actually say it could do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rock · What happens: do, say · To what, where: rock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1226 «Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolverine tricks a bear up a tree after a rock, lightning and a torn coat» 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 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 2 cheeky | advmod |
| 2 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 did | cc |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cheeky | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rock | det |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 9 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 10 say | advmod |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rock | acl:relcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 say | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 cheeky | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the rock | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the rock not said here | actually property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | could | rock | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
roll
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 3
slide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
walk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | imperative | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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