Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns th…

Wait, how'd the ring reach his mum?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ring · What happens: wait, reach · To what, where: mum

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1823 «Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns the Magician's secret and sets out for the parrot» 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	_	7 reach	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 reach	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 reach	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reach	nsubj
7	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mum	nmod:poss
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reach	obj
10	?	?	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	reach	infinitive	the ring	his mum					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mum=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

Thrown by hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 hand	case
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	participle						by hand	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by hand=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tied to a flower and dropped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 flower	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flower	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tied	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dropped	cc
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Tied	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle						to a flower	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to flower=Co-Patient
2	drop	participle							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tied to a bouquet and thrown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 bouquet	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bouquet	det
4	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tied	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thrown	cc
6	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Tied	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle						to a bouquet	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to bouquet=Co-Patient
2	throw	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Sent by a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 bird	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle						by a bird	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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