Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, an…

How did the fairy get them back to the palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairy · What happens: get · To what, where: them

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1691 «Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, and the bird cures the King» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fairy	det
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 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	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the fairy	them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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

The ivory car flew over the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 car	det
2	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 car	compound
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 hills	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hills	det
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the ivory car			the hills			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Location

Option 2

Her silver chariot rode the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 chariot	nmod:poss
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chariot	amod
3	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	Her silver chariot	the wind					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Her ivory chariot flew through the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 chariot	nmod:poss
2	ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chariot	amod
3	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Her ivory chariot			the air			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location

Option 4

Her ivory chariot flew through the air and landed in the castle courtyard before the whole court

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 chariot	nmod:poss
2	ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chariot	amod
3	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 landed	cc
9	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 courtyard	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 courtyard	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 courtyard	compound
13	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 landed	obl
14	before	before	ADP	_	17 court	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 court	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 court	amod
17	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 landed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Her ivory chariot			the air			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
2	land	past	Her ivory chariot not said here			the castle courtyard	before the whole court		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in courtyard=Destination

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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