Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches…

the Princess's carriage turned round, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: carriage · What happens: turn round

This is test 11 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 carriage	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Princess	case
4	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	5 turned	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn round	past	the Princess's carriage					round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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

yep, she turned slowly back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
7	home	home	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	past	she					home, slowly property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she drove on to the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 drove	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drove	nsubj
4	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 drove	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	she			the palace			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=Trajectory

Option 3

yep, she drove slowly back into town and stopped at the inn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 drove	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drove	nsubj
4	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 back	advmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 drove	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 town	case
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stopped	cc
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 inn	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 inn	det
13	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	she						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	past	she not said here			the inn			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yep, she drove slowly back into town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 drove	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drove	nsubj
4	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 drove	advmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 drove	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 town	case
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive back	past	she			town		slowly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into town=Trajectory

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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