Test 8 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…

Why did the king leg it when he saw the dust?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leg, he · What happens: do, see · To what, where: king leg, dust

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	parataxis
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leg	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leg	compound
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dust	det
11	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	leg	the king leg					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality
2	see	past	he	the dust					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dust=Stimulus

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

He thought the army had turned

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 army	det
4	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	aux
6	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	turn	past · perfect · passive		the army					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 2

He saw a fire

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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	He	a fire					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He thought giants were charging

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 charging	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 charging	aux
5	charging	charge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	charge	past · progressive	giants						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He was scared

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					scared property	tree rules

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