Test 6 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lie…

What did the head do on the bridge that spooked the old woman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: head, bridge · What happens: do, spook · To what, where: bridge, old woman

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1234 «Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lies in bed while his mules bring home gold» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 head	det
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 bridge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bridge	det
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 spooked	nsubj
10	spooked	spook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bridge	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spooked	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the head		the bridge	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spook	past	the bridge	the old woman		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woman=Experiencer

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

It moved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	It						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It rolled off the bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rolled	nsubj
2	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 bridge	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bridge	det
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll off	past	It	the bridge					vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bridge=Theme

Option 3

It bit her hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	It	her hand					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It talked to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	It		her = she				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent

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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