Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children fle…

where did the storks take him, like, which place?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: storks · What happens: be, take · To what, where: him

This is test 9 · ★ 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	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 take	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storks	det
4	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	nsubj
5	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 place	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	11 place	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 place	punct
10	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	11 place	det
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 place	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						where property	tree rules
2	take	present	the storks		him = he				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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

a warm southern land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 land	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 land	amod
3	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 land	amod
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 away	advmod
2	away	away	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 south	det
2	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a wide sandy desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 desert	det
2	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 desert	amod
3	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 desert	amod
4	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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