Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a ho…

yo, what did the wizard turn into when he chased the horse?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, chase · To what, where: wizard turn, horse

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» 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	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	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	7 turn	det
6	wizard	wizard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turn	amod
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	into	into	SCONJ	_	11 chased	mark
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 chased	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chased	nsubj
11	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chased	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the wizard turn					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Eventuality
2	chase	past	he	the horse					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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

an eagle, diving down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 diving	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 eagle	punct
4	diving	dive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 diving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive down	gerund	a eagle					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

a snake, slithering off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slithering	punct
4	slithering	slither	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 snake	acl
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 slithering	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slither off	gerund	a snake not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a hawk, swooping up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hawk	det
2	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swooping	punct
4	swooping	swoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hawk	acl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 swooping	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop up	gerund	a hawk not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	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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