Test 6 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prin…

What did the whole town do when the reward was mad big?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reward · What happens: do, be · To what, where: whole town

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 town	amod
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 big	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reward	det
9	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 big	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 big	cop
11	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 big	amod
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 do	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the whole town		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Eventuality
2	do	present				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the reward		big property	tree rules

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

Ran into the fields in no time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 fields	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fields	det
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ran	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	participle					time	into the fields result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into field=Result

Option 2

Ran off to the forest quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Ran	compound:prt
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 forest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ran	obl
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	participle						to the forest result; quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to forest=Result

Option 3

Ran into the fields and the hills and the woods in no time at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 fields	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fields	det
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ran	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hills	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hills	det
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fields	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 woods	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woods	det
10	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fields	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 time	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ran	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	participle					time	into the fields and the hills and the woods result; at all	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into field=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Searched every field, every river and every wood for the bird in no time

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Searched	search	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 field	det
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Searched	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 river	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 field	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wood	cc
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 field	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 bird	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Searched	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Searched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	participle		every field and every wood			time	for the bird	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent field=Location for bird=Theme

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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