Test 2 · ★ · Slavonic Fairy Tales, Ferko, part 17: blinded and crippled…

Wait, so the gallows was the tree he chilled under, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, gallows, he · What happens: wait, be, chill, innit · To what, where: tree

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1693 «Slavonic Fairy Tales, Ferko, part 17: blinded and crippled Ferko heals himself and wins the King's test» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tree	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 tree	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gallows	det
5	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tree	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tree	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chilled	nsubj
10	chilled	chill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tree	acl:relcl
11	under	under	ADP	_	10 chilled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the gallows	the tree	tree rules
3	chill	past	he	the tree not said here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tree=Experiencer
4	innit	infinitive	you not said here		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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, two ravens were chatting on it about the magic lake and the hill dew

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 chatting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ravens	nummod
4	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chatting	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chatting	aux
6	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chatting	obl
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 lake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lake	det
11	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lake	compound
12	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chatting	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dew	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dew	det
15	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dew	compound
16	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lake	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	past · progressive	two ravens			it		about the magic lake and the hill dew	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about lake=Topic

Option 2

yeah, a wolf was sat up there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	aux:pass
6	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 sat	compound:prt
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	past · passive		a wolf		there			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

nah, a bunch of crows were nicking bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 nicking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bunch	det
4	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nicking	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 crows	case
6	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bunch	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nicking	aux
8	nicking	nick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nicking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · progressive	a bunch of crows	bread					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, two ravens were chatting on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 chatting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ravens	nummod
4	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chatting	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chatting	aux
6	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chatting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	past · progressive	two ravens			it			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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