Test 6 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath,…
Lol, did he bolt when the gate opened?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, gate · What happens: bolt, open
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 5 bolt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bolt | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bolt | nsubj |
| 5 | bolt | bolt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 opened | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gate | det |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | nsubj |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bolt | advcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bolt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bolt | past · do-support | he | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | open | participle | the gate | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP 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
Nah, he hugged the slaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 hugged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hugged | nsubj |
| 4 | hugged | hug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 slaves | det |
| 6 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hugged | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hug | past | he | the slaves | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Co-Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he ran off fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 ran | compound:prt |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ran | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | he | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, he did a big dance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dance | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dance | amod |
| 7 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | he | a big dance | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he stayed for tea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 tea | case |
| 6 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | he | for tea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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