Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 24: the little man…

Fr, the messenger found him hopping round the fire?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: messenger, Fr · What happens: find, hop · To what, where: Fr, fire

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 messenger	det
4	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	obj
7	hopping	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 found	xcomp
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hopping	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the messenger	Fr					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
2	hop	gerund	Fr not said here			the fire			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round fire=Trajectory

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, he was dancing on the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dancing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dancing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dancing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dancing	aux
5	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 grass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	he			the grass			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, on one leg, like a total weirdo, hopping around the fire and singing a silly song

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 leg	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 leg	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 leg	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 leg	nummod
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 weirdo	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 weirdo	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 weirdo	det
9	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weirdo	amod
10	weirdo	weirdo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leg	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hopping	punct
12	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 leg	advcl
13	around	around	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hopping	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 singing	cc
17	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hopping	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 song	det
19	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 song	amod
20	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 singing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop	gerund				the fire			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around fire=Trajectory
2	sing speech: express	gerund		a silly song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 3

Yep, he was hopping round the fire on one leg like a total weirdo and yelling at everyone

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 hopping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hopping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hopping	aux
5	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hopping	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 leg	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 leg	nummod
11	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hopping	obl
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 weirdo	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 weirdo	det
14	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 weirdo	amod
15	weirdo	weirdo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leg	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 yelling	cc
17	yelling	yell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hopping	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 everyone	case
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 yelling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop	past · progressive	he			one leg like a total weirdo		round the fire	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round fire=Trajectory
2	yell speech: express	gerund	he not said here					at everyone	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at everyone=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, on one leg, like a total weirdo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 leg	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 leg	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 leg	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 leg	nummod
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 weirdo	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 weirdo	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 weirdo	det
9	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weirdo	amod
10	weirdo	weirdo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leg	appos

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

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