Test 12 · ★ · pg641, Fet-Fruners, part 58: the princess passes the trap,…

did the princess actually sail, or did she just ride the whole way, fam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: do, ride · To what, where: princess, whole way

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1807 «pg641, Fet-Fruners, part 58: the princess passes the trap, is sent off with Sunlight, and sails to find Iliane» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 sail	advmod
5	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 did	cc
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 did	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ride	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 ride	advmod
11	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 did	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 way	amod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ride	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fam	punct
16	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 way	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the princess	sail obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
2	do	past				tree rules
3	ride	present	princess	the whole way and fam		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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 · ✓ the right answer

She sailed on a ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ship	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ship	det
5	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	She			a ship			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She sailed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	She						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She rode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	She						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She walked the whole way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	She	the whole way					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory

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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