Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…

Oi, what did Esben fly on, then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Esben · What happens: fly on

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	6 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 fly	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fly	aux
5	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fly	nsubj
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 fly	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 then	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fly	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly on	past · do-support	Esben				then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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

his little white stick, which he had found in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 stick	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 found	nsubj:pass
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	aux
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stick	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · perfect · passive		his little white stick		the forest			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a little wooden horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his little white stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 stick	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a broomstick the witch had left by the door, enchanted and white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 broomstick	det
2	broomstick	broomstick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	nsubj:pass
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 enchanted	punct
11	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 left	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 white	cc
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 left	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect · passive	the door	a broomstick					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	enchant	participle	the door not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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