Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Fr…

What was the sentinel going to crush?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentinel · What happens: be, go, crush

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 124 «Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Frog becomes a Prince, Henry's bands break, and Tom Thumb ends up in a cow» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sentinel	det
4	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sentinel	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 crush	mark
7	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	is a	past	the sentinel	tree rules
2	go	gerund	the sentinel not said here	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	crush	to-infinitive	the sentinel not said here	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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

The thief who had hidden inside the tall oak chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thief	det
2	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hidden	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hidden	aux
5	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thief	acl:relcl
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 chest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chest	det
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chest	amod
9	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chest	compound
10	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · perfect · passive		the thief		the tall oak chest			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient inside chest=Location

Option 2

A fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fly	det
2	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

An ugly spider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spider	det
2	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spider	amod
3	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A dusty mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
2	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mouse	amod
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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