Test 11 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath,…

Mate, what did the ship do every time he jumped?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, jump · To what, where: ship, time

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ship	det
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl:unmarked
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 jumped	nsubj
11	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 time	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the ship		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Eventuality
2	do	present	Mate		time	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	jump	past	Mate	every time not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Trajectory

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

Sank like a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sank	Sank	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 stone	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sank	nmod

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

Option 2

Floated off away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Floated	compound:prt
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Floated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float off	participle						away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stayed under his feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 feet	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feet	nmod:poss
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past				his feet			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location

Option 4

Flew up in the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Flew	compound:prt
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sky	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sky	det
5	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	past				the sky			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location

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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