Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a ho…

fam, what did the horse turn into when it saw the nail?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam · What happens: do, turn, see · To what, where: horse, nail

This is test 7 · ★ 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 fam	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	into	into	SCONJ	_	11 saw	mark
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nail	det
13	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	fam	the horse	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
2	turn	present	fam		tree rules
3	see	past	fam	the nail	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nail=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 swan, soaring over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 swan	det
2	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 soaring	punct
4	soaring	soar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 swan	acl
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 soaring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soar over	gerund	a swan not said here					over property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a dove, flying up high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dove	det
2	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flying	punct
4	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dove	acl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 flying	compound:prt
6	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 flying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	gerund	a dove not said here					high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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