Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince cl…

Where was the black horse waiting, like, exactly?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: black horse · What happens: be, wait

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1240 «Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince climbs to the princess's window» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
6	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 horse	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	6 waiting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	1 Where	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the black horse					exactly, where property	tree rules
2	wait	gerund	the black horse not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Near a rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Near	near	ADP	_	3 rock	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rock	det
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tied to a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 tree	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle						to a tree	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tree=Co-Patient

Option 3

Under the big oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	4 oak	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oak	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 oak	amod
4	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By the old barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 barn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 barn	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 barn	amod
4	barn	barn	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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