Test 7 · ★ · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

Dude, where'd the old bloke find the gold pot?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old bloke · What happens: find · To what, where: gold pot

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 find	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 find	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bloke	amod
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	nsubj
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dude	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pot	det
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pot	compound
11	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	the old bloke	the gold pot					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Topic

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

Under soil by the forest edge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	2 soil	case
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 edge	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 edge	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 edge	compound
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soil	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soil		the forest edge						nom soil «state transitive»: by=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Under thick soil at the edge of the dark forest, near the stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	3 soil	case
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soil	amod
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 edge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 edge	det
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soil	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 forest	amod
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 edge	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stream	punct
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 stream	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stream	det
14	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soil	conj

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

Option 3

Under a tree by the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	3 tree	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	nmod

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

Option 4

Buried deep beneath the soil at the far edge of the forest by the road

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	deep	deep	ADV	_	1 Buried	advmod
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	5 soil	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soil	det
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buried	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 edge	det
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 edge	amod
9	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buried	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 edge	nmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 road	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 road	det
15	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	participle				the far edge of the forest		beneath the soil; by the road; deep property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beneath soil=Destination

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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