Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…

Bruv, how did Cinderlad end up riding a foal?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cinderlad · What happens: end up, ride · To what, where: foal

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 end	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 end	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 end	aux
5	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 end	nsubj
6	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 end	compound:prt
8	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 end	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 foal	det
10	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 riding	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	past · do-support	Cinderlad					Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	ride	gerund	Cinderlad not said here	a foal					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme

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 youngest foal told him to hop on and then galloped off across the moor

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foal	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 foal	amod
3	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hop	mark
7	hop	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 hop	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 galloped	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 galloped	advmod
11	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 galloped	compound:prt
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 moor	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moor	det
15	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 galloped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the youngest foal	him = he			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hop on not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youngest foal not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gallop off	past	the youngest foal not said here		the moor	then	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across moor=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The youngest foal told him to hop on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foal	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 foal	amod
3	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hop	mark
7	hop	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 hop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the youngest foal		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hop on not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youngest foal not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The oldest foal asked him to ride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foal	det
2	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 foal	amod
3	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ride	mark
7	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the oldest foal		him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	ride not said to happen	to-infinitive	the oldest foal not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The youngest foal told him to hop on its back while the others ran ahead

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foal	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 foal	amod
3	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hop	mark
7	hop	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 back	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 back	nmod:poss
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hop	obl
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 ran	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 others	det
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hop	advcl
15	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	14 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the youngest foal	him = he			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hop not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youngest foal not said here		foal's back		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
3	run	past	the others			ahead property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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