Test 3 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…

Mate, was the stone blocking the cave a massive boulder?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: stone · What happens: block · To what, where: cave

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blocking	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blocking	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stone	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blocking	nsubj
6	blocking	block	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cave	det
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blocking	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boulder	det
10	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boulder	amod
11	boulder	boulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blocking	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 blocking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	past · progressive	the stone	the cave				Mate vocative	tree rules

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

Nah, a gate, the fairy opened it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gate	det
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gate	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fairy	det
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	nsubj
8	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 opened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	a gate	fairy					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, a huge rock, the Queen pushed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 pushed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rock	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rock	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rock	amod
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pushed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rock	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Queen	det
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pushed	nsubj
9	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pushed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	the Queen	a huge rock					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Nah, a wooden door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 door	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 door	det
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 door	amod
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a big stone, the King touched it with his foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stone	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stone	amod
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touched	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stone	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 touched	nsubj
9	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 touched	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 foot	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 foot	nmod:poss
13	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	a big stone	it				with King's foot	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with foot=Instrument

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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