Test 12 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Po…

Lol, Kotei sat by a pond, what was the bug doing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kotei, pond · What happens: sit, be, do · To what, where: bug

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	Kotei	Kotei	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 pond	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pond	det
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bug	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 bug	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bug	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bug	det
12	bug	bug	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pond	conj
13	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Kotei		by a pond and the bug	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by pond=Location
2	is a	past	a pond and the bug	the bug		tree rules
3	do	gerund	Kotei not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

a spider on a leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spider	det
2	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 leaf	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 leaf	det
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spider	nmod

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

Option 2

a bee on a flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bee	det
2	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 flower	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flower	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bee	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a spider crossing the whole pond on the wind-blown leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spider	det
2	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 spider	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pond	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pond	amod
6	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crossing	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	12 leaves	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 leaves	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blown	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 wind	punct
11	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 leaves	amod
12	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crossing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund	a spider not said here	the whole pond		the blown leaves			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pond=Patient
2	blow	participle							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4

a spider walking across the pond on a floating leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spider	det
2	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 spider	acl
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 pond	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pond	det
6	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walking	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 leaf	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 leaf	det
9	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 leaf	amod
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund	a spider not said here			the pond		on a floating leaf	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across pond=Trajectory
2	float	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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