Test 7 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three ho…

Lowkey, what did the horses do on the hill?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey, horses · What happens: do · To what, where: hill

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1491 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caught and a knight on the glass hill» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horses	det
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 hill	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Lowkey						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the horses			the hill			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Fell over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fell	fell	ADV	_	2 over	advmod
2	over	over	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

Slid right back down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	right	right	ADV	_	3 back	advmod
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Slid	advmod
4	down	down	ADV	_	1 Slid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide down	past						down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Slipped right back down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	right	right	ADV	_	3 back	advmod
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Slipped	advmod
4	down	down	ADV	_	1 Slipped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip down	past						down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Stopped dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	participle						dead property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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