Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi…

who did he go to for help first, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: go

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 go	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	4 go	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 help	case
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support						for help; first property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for help=Beneficiary

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

the old wise woman up the mountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	7 mountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woman	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the Wind's mum who lives beyond the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wind	det
2	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mum	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Wind	case
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lives	nsubj
6	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mum	acl:relcl
7	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the Wind's mum			the sea			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond sea=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stars	det
2	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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