Test 4 · ★ · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

Where was the ram's blood, all over the place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blood · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	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	4 ram	det
4	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blood	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 ram	case
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 place	punct
8	all	all	ADV	_	11 place	advmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 place	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blood	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ram's blood and the place					where property	tree rules

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

Spattered across the old stone walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spattered	spatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	across	across	ADP	_	6 walls	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 walls	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 walls	amod
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walls	compound
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Spattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spatter	participle				the old stone walls			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across wall=Destination

Option 2

On the stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 stones	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stones	det
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Scattered on the path beside the gray kiln

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 path	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 path	det
4	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scattered	obl
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 kiln	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kiln	det
7	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kiln	amod
8	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	participle				the path		beside the gray kiln	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on path=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

On the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 grass	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grass	det
3	grass	grass	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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