Test 2 · ★ · The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3: the King is tricked,…

Hold up, what was the King's ride, like, a sick chariot?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: hold up, be · To what, where: ride

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1866 «The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3: the King is tricked, then turned into a Blue Bird» 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ride	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 ride	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ride	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ride	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	9 ride	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 chariot	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 chariot	det
14	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 chariot	amod
15	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ride	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here						vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	past		the King's ride and a sick chariot					tree rules

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

Carried by silver swans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 swans	case
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swans	compound
4	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	participle						by silver swans	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Pulled by geese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 geese	case
3	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	participle						by geese	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Dragged by big brown bears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 bears	case
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bears	amod
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bears	amod
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	participle						by big brown bears	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bear=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pulled by flying frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 frogs	case
3	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 frogs	amod
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	participle						by flying frogs	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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