Test 12 · ★ · Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58…

Bro, what does Dapplegrim call the sound far away, a foal or a colt?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dapplegrim · What happens: call · To what, where: sound · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1561 «Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58: Dapplegrim climbs the cliff and rescues the Princess, then the King sets new tasks» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 call	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 call	aux
5	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	6 call	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 foal	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 foal	det
13	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 colt	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 colt	det
16	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 foal	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · do-support	Dapplegrim	the sound				Bro vocative; a foal or a colt obl; away property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme sound=Result

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 tiny old colt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 colt	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 colt	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 colt	amod
4	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a mare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mare	det
2	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a foal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 foal	det
2	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a full-grown colt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 colt	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grown	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 full	punct
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 colt	amod
5	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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