Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Lud…

Safe, which arm did he tie that scarf round so he could sniff it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Safe, he · What happens: tie, sniff · To what, where: scarf

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1899 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Ludovine from the goblins, sleeps through his chances, and is carried off to the Low Countries.» 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	Safe	safe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tie	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 arm	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 arm	det
4	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Safe	conj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tie	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tie	nsubj
7	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 scarf	det
9	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tie	obj
10	round	round	ADV	_	7 tie	advmod
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 sniff	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sniff	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sniff	aux
14	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tie	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sniff	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past · do-support	Safe and which arm	that scarf				round property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarf=Patient
2	sniff	could	he	scarf					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer

his left arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 arm	nmod:poss
2	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 arm	amod
3	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

his arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 arm	nmod:poss
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 right	det
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

his left hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
2	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hand	amod
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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