Test 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58…

Yo, which animals did Dapplegrim say were sent to stop them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animals · What happens: say, send, stop · To what, where: animals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sent	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	aux:pass
9	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stop	mark
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sent	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stop	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	which animals		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	send	past · passive			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	stop	to-infinitive		animals = animal	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality

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

the wild dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dogs	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the wild beasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beasts	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beasts	amod
3	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

the foxes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 foxes	det
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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