Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches…

so what's the stick for, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: stick

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1902 «Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches a crowd and the Princess laughs at last» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 stick	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 stick	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stick	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 yeah	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 for	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stick	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the stick					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 · ← Mova's choice

to poke the bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 poke	mark
2	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	to-infinitive		the bird					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent bird=Instrument

Option 2

to tie the swan to a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 tie	mark
2	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swan	det
4	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tie	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	to-infinitive		the swan				to a tree	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent swan=Patient to tree=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to touch the swan and free everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 touch	mark
2	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swan	det
4	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touch	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 everyone	cc
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 everyone	amod
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 swan	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	to-infinitive		the swan					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swan=Co-Theme

Option 4

to scare off the swan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 scare	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swan	det
5	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare off	to-infinitive		the swan					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus swan=Experiencer

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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