Test 6 · ★ · pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runa…

Seriously, why did the stone roll away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stone · What happens: roll away

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1766 «pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runaways escape the goblins with the magic ball and reach the world again» 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	Seriously	seriously	ADV	_	7 roll	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seriously	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 roll	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 roll	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roll	nsubj
7	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 roll	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 roll	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll away	past · do-support	the stone					away, seriously property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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

The maiden told it to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	3 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the maiden		it				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 2

The goblins rolled it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goblins	det
2	goblins	goblin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rolled	nsubj
3	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rolled	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 rolled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll away	past	the goblins	it				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The ball told it to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	3 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the ball		it				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 4

It was pushed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pushed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pushed	aux:pass
3	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past · passive		It					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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