Test 4 · ★ · Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children fle…

how'd the hazel-nut kid get to the village, lol?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nut kid · What happens: get

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» 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	8 get	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kid	det
4	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nut	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hazel	punct
6	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kid	compound
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 village	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	8 get	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the nut kid					to the village result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result

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

sitting in the stirrup the whole way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 stirrup	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stirrup	det
4	stirrup	stirrup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sitting	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sitting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund		the whole way		the stirrup			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stirrup=Location

Option 2

tied to the reins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 reins	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reins	det
4	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle						to the reins	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to rein=Co-Patient

Option 3

wrapped in a cloak under the saddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 cloak	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cloak	det
4	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wrapped	obl
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 saddle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 saddle	det
7	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	participle				a cloak		under the saddle	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloak=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

hid under the saddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 saddle	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 saddle	det
4	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past				the saddle			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under saddle=Location

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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