Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 24: the little man…

Wait, what does the merchant do when he finds the castle?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, do, find · To what, where: castle

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1437 «Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 24: the little man tears himself in two, and the merchant finds a magic castle» 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 does	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 do	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 finds	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 finds	nsubj
10	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finds	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	present			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	present	he	the castle	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Topic

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

He sits down by the fire and nods off

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 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sits	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nods	cc
8	nods	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sits	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 nods	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	present	He					by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	nod off	present	He not said here						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He opens the door and looks around

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 opens	nsubj
2	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opens	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 looks	cc
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 opens	conj
7	around	around	ADV	_	6 looks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present	He	the door					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	look around	present	He not said here					around property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He sits down by the fire, eats some food, and nods off to sleep

The tree, 14 words

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 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sits	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eats	punct
8	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sits	conj
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 food	det
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eats	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nods	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nods	cc
13	nods	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sits	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 nods	compound:prt
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sleep	mark
16	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 nods	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	present	He		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	eat	present	He not said here	some food		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	nod off	present	He not said here			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	sleep	to-infinitive	He not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He sits down by the warm fire in a little room and quickly nods off to sleep

The tree, 17 words

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 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sits	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fire	amod
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 room	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 nods	cc
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	14 nods	advmod
14	nods	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sits	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 nods	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sleep	mark
17	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 nods	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	present	He	a little room	by the warm fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	nod off	present	He not said here		quickly property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	sleep	to-infinitive	He not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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