Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Prince…

Wait, what was the brothers' vibe riding ahead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: vibe riding

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» 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	_	9 riding	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 riding	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 riding	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 riding	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 brothers	case
8	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 riding	compound
9	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
10	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	9 riding	advmod
11	?	?	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	is a	past		the brothers's vibe riding				ahead property	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 · ✓ the right answer

thinking up fancy lines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 thinking	compound:prt
3	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lines	amod
4	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 thinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think up speech: other	gerund		fancy lines					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot line=Theme

Option 2

planning which horse to steal from the palace yard before dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	planning	plan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 planning	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 steal	mark
5	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 planning	advcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 yard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 yard	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yard	compound
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 steal	obl
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 dark	case
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 steal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	gerund		which horse					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
2	steal	to-infinitive				dark		from the palace yard	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before dark=Location

Option 3

arguing about the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 road	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 arguing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	gerund						about the road	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about road=Topic

Option 4

quarrelling over who gets the Princess first on the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gets	advcl
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 gets	case
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 gets	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quarrell	gerund							tree rules
2	get	present		the Princess		the road		first property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent princess=Theme on road=Source

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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