Test 5 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…
Proper, what did the Lord of Avesnes do when he saw her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lord · What happens: do, see · To what, where: her
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Proper | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lord | det |
| 6 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 do | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Avesnes | case |
| 8 | Avesnes | Avesne | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Lord | nmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | properly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | present | the Lord of Avesnes | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Lord | her = she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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 right answer
nearly fell backwards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 2 fell | advmod |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 2 fell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | backwards, nearly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
stumbled back against the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 stumbled | advmod |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 wall | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wall | det |
| 5 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 stumbled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stumble back | participle | the wall | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Trajectory |
Option 3
laughed loudly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 1 laughed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | loudly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
covered his eyes and turned away in horror
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 covered | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 turned | cc |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 covered | conj |
| 6 | away | away | ADP | _ | 5 turned | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 horror | case |
| 8 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | his eyes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination | |||||
| 2 | turn away | past | horror | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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