Test 7 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement, part 1: Gon and Koma…
Koma screamed her head off up that tree, yeah, but who heard her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Koma · What happens: scream off, hear · To what, where: head, Koma
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1612 «Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement, part 1: Gon and Koma run away, but a big dog splits them up» 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 | Koma | Koma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 screamed | nsubj |
| 2 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 screamed | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADV | _ | 2 screamed | compound:prt |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 screamed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 10 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 14 heard | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 heard | cc |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 screamed | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 screamed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream off speech: express | past | Koma | Koma's head | up that tree | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | |||
| 2 | hear | past | Koma | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: 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
A dog that came running from the palace yard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 yard | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 yard | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yard | compound |
| 9 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 running | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a dog | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | a dog not said here | from the palace yard | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from yard=Trajectory |
Option 2
A nosy neighbour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 neighbour | det |
| 2 | nosy | nosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 neighbour | amod |
| 3 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The princess herself, who was walking nearby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 princess | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 walking | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 walking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walking | aux |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 princess | conj |
| 8 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 7 walking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | the princess princess | nearby property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A passing servant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 servant | det |
| 2 | passing | passing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 servant | amod |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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