Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and…

test: Mad, how did the twins finally get away?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: twins · What happens: do, get away

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1726 «Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and twins flee a witch's hut» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Mad	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Mad	punct
3	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Mad	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 twins	det
8	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 get	nsubj
9	finally	finally	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	ccomp
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get away	present	the twins					away, finally property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

ran like mad with hands held and never looked back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 mad	case
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ran	obl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 hands	case
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ran	obl
6	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hands	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looked	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 looked	advmod
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 ran	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 looked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	past		like mad; with hands	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with hand=Material
2	hold	participle	hands not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not look back	past			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they climbed a tall tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	they	a tall tree					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

ran like mad with hands held

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 mad	case
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ran	obl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 hands	case
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ran	obl
6	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past						like mad; with hands	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with hand=Material
2	hold	participle							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

they jumped over the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	they			the river			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over river=Trajectory

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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