Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three ho…

Wait, how far did the copper knight get up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, copper knight · What happens: wait, get up

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 get	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knight	det
7	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knight	compound
8	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 get	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get up	past · do-support	the copper knight					far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ← Mova's choice

A third of the way down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 third	det
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 third	obl
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 way	advmod

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

Option 2

A quarter of the way up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 quarter	det
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quarter	nmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 way	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A third of the way up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 third	det
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 third	obl
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 way	advmod

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

Option 4

Nearly the top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 top	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 top	det
3	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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