Test 5 · ★ · Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 51: Owen is hea…
did the maids sneak off like scared little mice
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maids · What happens: sneak off
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1326 «Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 51: Owen is healed by a widowed countess and rides out to fight the earl who wants her lands» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sneak | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maids | det |
| 3 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sneak | nsubj |
| 4 | sneak | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 sneak | compound:prt |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 mice | case |
| 7 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mice | amod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mice | amod |
| 9 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sneak | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneak off | past · do-support | the maids | like scared little mice | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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
yeah they ran off to the hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 ran | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | they | to the hall result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hall=Result |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
nah they just stood there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stood | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | they | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
nah they were brave lads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 lads | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lads | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lads | cop |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lads | amod |
| 5 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | they | brave lads | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah they hid in the bushes at first, proper scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 hid | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bushes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bushes | det |
| 6 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hid | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 first | case |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 hid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
| 10 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 scared | amod |
| 11 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hid | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | they | the bushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location |
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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