Test 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the w…
bro, how did Esben get back to the palace again?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Esben · What happens: get back
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1659 «Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the witch, saves his brothers and goes home» 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 get | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 back | obl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past · do-support | Esben | again | bro vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
by horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 horse | case |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
on his little white stick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 stick | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stick | nmod:poss |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stick | amod |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stick | amod |
| 5 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
on a big brown horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 horse | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 4 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
in the king's golden coach
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 coach | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coach | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coach | amod |
| 6 | coach | coach | 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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