Test 8 · ★ · pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns th…

Wait, what did he claim to be, though?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, claim, be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1618 «pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns the Tanuki, then a poor merchant's son flies off to the Turks» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 claim	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 claim	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 claim	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 claim	nsubj
6	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 be	mark
8	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 claim	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 claim	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	claim speech: other	past · do-support	he	tree rules
3	be	to-infinitive	he not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 right answer

A Turkish god

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 god	det
2	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 god	amod
3	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A Turkish god who came through the air on a magic carpet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 god	det
2	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 god	amod
3	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 god	acl:relcl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 carpet	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 carpet	det
11	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carpet	compound
12	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a Turkish god			the air		on a magic carpet	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through air=Initial_Location

Option 3

A Greek sailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sailor	det
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sailor	amod
3	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A Persian prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 prince	det
2	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prince	amod
3	prince	prince	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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