Test 11 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Po…

Ugh, the river was mad swollen, so how'd Shiyu get across?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: river, Shiyu · What happens: be, get

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1349 «Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage, part 9: Kotei beats the fog and crosses the river in boats made after a spider's leaf» 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	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	7 swollen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ugh	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swollen	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swollen	cop
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 swollen	amod
7	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 get	advmod
11	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
12	Shiyu	Shiyu	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 get	nsubj
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 swollen	conj
14	across	across	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 swollen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the river					swollen property	tree rules
2	get	infinitive	Shiyu					across property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 swam

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 swam	nsubj
2	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

by a rope bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 bridge	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
3	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bridge	compound
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by magic, dead quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 magic	case
2	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quick	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 magic	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quick	amod
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

by sending his soldiers across on a hidden bridge of stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 sending	mark
2	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 soldiers	nmod:poss
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sending	obj
5	across	across	ADV	_	2 sending	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 bridge	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bridge	det
8	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bridge	amod
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sending	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 stone	case
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bridge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund		his soldiers		a hidden bridge of stone		across property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=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.

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