Test 2 · ★ · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

Wait, what did Walter bang on to scare stuff off?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Walter · What happens: wait, bang on, scare off · To what, where: stuff

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1288 «Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "wolf" that turns out to be his dog Caro» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bang	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 bang	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bang	aux
5	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bang	nsubj
6	bang	bang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 bang	compound:prt
8	to	to	PART	_	9 scare	mark
9	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bang	advcl
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scare	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	9 scare	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bang on	past · do-support	Walter		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme
3	scare off	to-infinitive	Walter not said here	stuff	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stuff=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

A tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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

His drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 drum	nmod:poss
2	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

His stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stick	nmod:poss
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

His hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hat	nmod:poss
2	hat	hat	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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