Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Fr…

What was that crack the Prince heard on the road?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: that, Prince · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: road

This is test 5 · ★ 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	4 crack	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crack	cop
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 crack	nsubj
4	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crack	ccomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 crack	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that					crack property	tree rules
2	hear	past	the Prince			the road			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

An iron band breaking from Henry's heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 band	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 band	compound
3	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 band	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 heart	case
6	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 heart	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Henry	case
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	gerund	a iron band not said here					from Henry's heart	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from heart=Co-Patient

Option 2

The lid of an old iron chest flying open and crashing onto the cold stone floor of the cellar

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lid	det
2	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 chest	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chest	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chest	amod
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chest	compound
7	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lid	nmod
8	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 chest	acl
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flying	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crashing	cc
11	crashing	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 flying	conj
12	onto	onto	ADP	_	16 floor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 floor	amod
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 floor	compound
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crashing	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 cellar	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cellar	det
19	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 floor	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund	a old iron chest not said here					open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crash	gerund	a old iron chest not said here			the cold stone floor of the cellar			vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto floor=Location

Option 3

A wooden axle snapping apart under the heavy carriage that was rolling over the bridge

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 axle	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 axle	amod
3	axle	axle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 axle	acl
5	apart	apart	ADV	_	4 snapping	advmod
6	under	under	ADP	_	9 carriage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 carriage	det
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 carriage	amod
9	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snapping	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 rolling	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rolling	aux
12	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 carriage	acl:relcl
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 bridge	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bridge	det
15	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	gerund	a wooden axle not said here			the heavy carriage		apart property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under carriage=Location
2	roll	past · progressive	the heavy carriage			the bridge			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory

Option 4

A wooden axle splitting in the frosty night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 axle	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 axle	amod
3	axle	axle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	splitting	split	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 axle	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 night	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
7	frosty	frosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 splitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	gerund	a wooden axle not said here				night		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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