Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three a…
Wait, which way did he take going home?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, way · What happens: wait, take, go
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» 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 take | punct |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 take | xcomp |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 going | advmod |
| 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 | take | past · do-support | which way | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | go | gerund | which way not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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
Back home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 2 home | advmod |
| 2 | home | home | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Down the hill path
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Down | down | ADP | _ | 4 path | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 path | det |
| 3 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 path | compound |
| 4 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
By boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 boat | case |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The same way he came
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 way | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | he | the same way not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1830-pg7128-part14/t10/