Test 1 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…

yo did the girl actually ride a wind all the way there or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo · What happens: do, ride · To what, where: girl, wind

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1420 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 7: the North Wind carries her to the castle, and the shirt goes wrong» 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 ride	advmod
6	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	obj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 way	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl:unmarked
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 way	advmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 nah	cc
14	nah	nah	INTJ	_	11 way	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	yo	the girl				all way obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality
2	ride	present	yo not said here	a wind				actually property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=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, totally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 totally	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

Nah, walked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, on the South Wind and then the North Wind, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 Wind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Wind	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 Wind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wind	det
5	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wind	compound
6	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Wind	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 Wind	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Wind	det
10	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Wind	compound
11	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wind	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cap	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 cap	det
14	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Wind	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she caught a ride on a cloud, straight up, no cap

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ride	det
6	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 cloud	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cloud	det
9	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 straight	punct
11	straight	straight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 caught	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 straight	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cap	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 cap	det
15	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	she	a ride		a cloud		no cap obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Theme
2	straight up	infinitive	she not said here						tree rules

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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