Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik s…

Wait, what did the wizard do with the chalk-looking stuff?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, look · To what, where: wizard

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1319 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik snares the korigan and rides off» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wizard	det
6	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	13 stuff	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stuff	det
10	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looking	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 chalk	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 stuff	amod
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		the wizard		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wizard=Eventuality
3	do	present			with the looking stuff	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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

he sketched a star on the earth

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 sketched	nsubj
2	sketched	sketch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 star	det
4	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sketched	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 earth	det
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sketched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sketch	past	he	a star		the earth			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent star=Theme on earth=Destination

Option 2

he drew a circle

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	he	a circle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circle=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he drew three circles on the ground

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 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 circles	nummod
4	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drew	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	he	three circles		the ground			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent circle=Theme on ground=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he wrote a name

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	he	a name					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1319-pg3454-part44/t2/