Test 9 · ★ · Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince…
Did the swallows actually deliver the message, though?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: swallows · What happens: do, deliver · To what, where: message
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1455 «Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince dives into the river as a crab» 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 swallows | det |
| 3 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 deliver | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 deliver | advmod |
| 5 | deliver | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 message | det |
| 7 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deliver | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 though | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 deliver | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | deliver | present | the swallows | the message | actually property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient |
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, they went to the wizard, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wizard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wizard | det |
| 7 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bruv | punct |
| 9 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wizard | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | they | to the wizard and bruv | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wizard=Initial_Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they flew off to Finland, sorted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sorted | advcl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 flew | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Finland | case |
| 7 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sorted | punct |
| 9 | sorted | sort | 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 | fly off | past | they | Finland | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to finland=Result | ||||
| 2 | sort | past | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nah, they got lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 lost | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux:pass |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | they | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 4
Nah, they just sat on the roof
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 sat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 roof | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roof | det |
| 8 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | they | the roof | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location |
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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