Test 6 · ★ · Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wi…

Where did the cypress tree stand in the meadow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cypress tree · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: meadow

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1784 «Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wild horses and wins the princess with a magic knife.» 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	6 stand	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	5 tree	det
4	cypress	cypress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	nsubj
6	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 meadow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 meadow	det
9	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						where property	tree rules
2	stand	present	the cypress tree			the meadow			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location

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

Beside a stream, alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beside	beside	ADP	_	3 stream	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stream	det
3	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stream	punct
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 stream	advmod

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

Option 2

Near the river bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Near	near	ADP	_	4 bank	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bank	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bank	compound
4	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

In one corner, all on its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 corner	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 corner	nummod
3	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 corner	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 corner	appos
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 all	nmod

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

Option 4

In the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	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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