Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Red Knight: the prince proves his deeds an…

Who stopped the lion from munching the Red Knight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: stop, munch · To what, where: lion, Red Knight

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1230 «Fairy Book, The Red Knight: the prince proves his deeds and the wicked knight is hanged» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 munching	mark
6	munching	munch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stopped	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Knight	det
8	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Knight	flat
9	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 munching	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past		the lion					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector lion=Eventuality
2	munch	gerund		the Red Knight					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Patient

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

The princess held it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 held	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 held	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold back	past	the princess	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

The king yelled at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yelled	nsubj
3	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 yelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	the king					at it	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at it=Stimulus

Option 3

The guests threw cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guests	det
2	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the guests	cake					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme

Option 4

The mermaid swam up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mermaid	det
2	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swam	nsubj
3	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 swam	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim up	past	the mermaid						vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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