Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout…

Innit true the shoes were dead strong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: true shoes · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 true	compound
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shoes	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shoes	det
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 strong	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 strong	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strong	amod
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 strong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the true shoes					strong property	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

Mud and leaves blew up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 leaves	cc
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mud	conj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 blew	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow up	past	Mud and leaves						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sticks and stones flew up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flew	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 stones	cc
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sticks	conj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 flew	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	past	Sticks and stones						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sticks and stones flew up into the air above the whole stable yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flew	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 stones	cc
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sticks	conj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 flew	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
9	above	above	ADP	_	13 yard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 yard	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 yard	amod
12	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 yard	amod
13	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	past	Sticks and stones			the air		above the whole stable yard	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above yard=Location

Option 4

Sticks and stones flew high up into the air over the whole yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flew	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 stones	cc
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sticks	conj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 yard	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 yard	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 yard	amod
13	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Sticks and stones			the air		over the whole yard	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over yard=Location

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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