Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the parents plan to los…

yo, did the Sheep really die at the gate, or is that just sad movie stuff?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sheep · What happens: do, die, be · To what, where: gate, movie stuff

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1467 «Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the parents plan to lose their sons in the forest, and Little Thumb leaves a trail of white pebbles» 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	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sheep	det
5	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 die	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 die	advmod
7	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 die	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stuff	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 stuff	cc
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 stuff	cop
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 stuff	mark
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 sad	advmod
16	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 movie	amod
17	movie	movie	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stuff	compound
18	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	die	present	the Sheep		the gate	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is a	present		movie stuff		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

He got carried off by a fairy and chilled out

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	3 carried	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	aux:pass
3	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 carried	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 fairy	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fairy	det
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 chilled	cc
9	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 carried	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 chilled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	past · passive	a fairy	He					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	chill out	participle	a fairy not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He turned into a sheep for real and ran 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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 sheep	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 real	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turned	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	He					into a sheep result; for real	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sheep=Result
2	run off	past	He not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He really died, fell dead right at the guards' feet

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	3 died	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 died	advmod
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 died	conj
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fell	xcomp
7	right	right	ADV	_	3 died	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 feet	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guards	det
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feet	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 guards	case
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	He			the guards's feet		right property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	fall	past	He not said here					dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He just fainted and woke up later

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	3 fainted	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 fainted	advmod
3	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 woke	cc
5	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fainted	conj
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 woke	compound:prt
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 fainted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	past	He					late property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	wake up	past	He not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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