Test 7 · ★ · Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 3…

Bro, what did the horse say ropes could not do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, ropes · What happens: do, say, not do · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1233 «Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 34: a boy warns the animals on the way to the miller's wedding, and they ignore him» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
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	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 do	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the horse	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Bro		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do	could	ropes		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

bind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bind	bind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

tie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tie	tie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

hold him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

stop him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality

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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