Test 9 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o…

Where did the old man go to do himself in, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: go, do · To what, where: man

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» 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=Rel	6 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	xcomp
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 do	obj
10	in	in	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	vocative
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the old man					mate vocative	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	man					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality

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

a lake by wooded hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lake	det
2	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 hills	case
4	wooded	wood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hills	amod
5	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wood	participle							tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a river by steep rocky cliffs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 cliffs	case
4	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cliffs	amod
5	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cliffs	amod
6	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 river	nmod

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

Option 3

a pond near the rocky plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pond	det
2	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	6 plain	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plain	det
5	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plain	amod
6	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pond	nmod

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

Option 4

a deep river by steep rocky cliffs at the edge of the jungle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 river	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 river	amod
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 cliffs	case
5	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cliffs	amod
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cliffs	amod
7	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 river	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 edge	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 edge	det
10	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cliffs	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 jungle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 jungle	det
13	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 edge	nmod

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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