Test 11 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell da…
Did the Queen's gang ride right up to the tree?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: do, ride · To what, where: gang ride
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1524 «Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell danger for Rosette» 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 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ride | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Queen | case |
| 5 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ride | compound |
| 6 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 11 tree | advmod |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Queen's gang ride | up the tree | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ride | the Queen | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, they got off and walked, trees too thick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 walked | cc |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 trees | punct |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walked | obl |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 thick | advmod |
| 11 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 walked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get off | past | they | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | they not said here | trees | thick property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, they rode up to the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 rode | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 rode | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride up | past | they | the door | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to door=Trajectory |
Option 3
Nah, they got off their horses and walked, cos the trees were too thick
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 walked | cc |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thick | punct |
| 11 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 16 thick | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trees | det |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thick | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thick | cop |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 thick | advmod |
| 16 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 walked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get off | past | they | their horses | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | they not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the trees | thick property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, they rode right up to the tree, then got off for the hermit
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 rode | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 4 rode | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 got | advmod |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 got | compound:prt |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 hermit | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hermit | det |
| 16 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | they | the tree | right property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent up tree=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | get off | past | they not said here | then | for the hermit | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for hermit=Source |
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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