Test 8 · ★ · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…
Who did he land on when he jumped, like, bang on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: land on, jump, bang on
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1307 «Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor brother jumps from the wall onto a sick old man, and two sons drag him to court» 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 | 4 land | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 land | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 land | nsubj |
| 4 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 land | compound:prt |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 jumped | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 jumped | nsubj |
| 8 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 land | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bang | punct |
| 10 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 12 bang | mark |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 12 | bang | bang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 land | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 bang | compound:prt |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 land | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land on | past · do-support | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | jump | past | he | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bang on | infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice
An old sick man by the wall who had asked to lie there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 man | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | aux |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 lie | mark |
| 12 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | xcomp |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 lie | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · perfect · passive | a old sick man by the wall | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lie not said to happen | to-infinitive | a old sick man by the wall not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
A sick farmer in the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 farmer | det |
| 2 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 farmer | amod |
| 3 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 farmer | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
An old sick man by the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A cart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cart | det |
| 2 | cart | cart | 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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