Test 3 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…

Yo, what made the pony go mental and bolt?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: pony · What happens: make, go, bolt · To what, where: pony

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pony	det
6	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
8	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bolt	cc
10	bolt	bolt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past		the pony		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the pony not said here		mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bolt	infinitive	the pony not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «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

He whacked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whacked	nsubj
2	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whacked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past	He	it					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Moti shouted at it loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	obl
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 shouted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	Moti			it		loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A snake bit it there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bit	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	compound
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bit	nsubj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bit	advmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Moti whacked it with his staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 whacked	nsubj
2	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whacked	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 staff	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 staff	nmod:poss
6	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past	Moti	it				with Moti's staff	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with staff=Instrument

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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