Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…
wait, the shoe flew off and landed where?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, shoe · What happens: wait, fly off, land
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» 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 | _ | 5 flew | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shoe | det |
| 4 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 flew | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 landed | cc |
| 8 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 landed | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly off | past | the shoe | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | land | past | the shoe not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
at the soldier's feet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 soldier | case |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
against the prison wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | against | against | ADP | _ | 4 wall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wall | det |
| 3 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wall | compound |
| 4 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
into the King's own garden behind the castle wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 garden | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garden | amod |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 wall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wall | compound |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 garden | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
against the prison wall beside the guard's window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | against | against | ADP | _ | 4 wall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wall | det |
| 3 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wall | compound |
| 4 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 guard | det |
| 7 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 window | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 guard | case |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wall | nmod |
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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