Test 9 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…

Who got squashed when Moti's pony threw him, like proper?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: pony · What happens: squash, throw · To what, where: Moti

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 squashed	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 squashed	aux:pass
3	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 threw	advmod
5	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pony	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Moti	case
7	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	nsubj
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 squashed	parataxis
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 threw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proper	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 proper	case
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 threw	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 squashed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	past · passive							vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	throw	past	Moti's pony	Moti					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

Moti, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Moti	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Moti	flat

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

Option 2

A tired soldier, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
2	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soldier	amod
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soldier	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A fat officer, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 officer	det
2	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 officer	amod
3	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 officer	conj

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

Option 4

A horse, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horse	conj

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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