Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman…

test: how'd he get to the snake's land?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: get

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1833 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman fools the king with a lucky guess, and a kind young man buys a dog, a cat and a snake» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 test	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 land	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snake	det
9	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 land	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 snake	case
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	he					to the snake's land result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result

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

he took a boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boat	det
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	a boat					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme

Option 2

he walked over a hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	over	over	ADP	_	5 hill	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	he			a hill			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory

Option 3

he rode a big horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

dived into a sacred spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	5 spring	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spring	det
4	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spring	amod
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	past					spring		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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