Test 12 · ★ · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

Where did the spindle go, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spindle · What happens: go

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spindle	det
4	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	vocative
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the spindle					mate vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

dancing through the fields and over the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 fields	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fields	det
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dancing	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hill	cc
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dancing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund				the fields			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

dancing through the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 fields	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fields	det
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund				the fields			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Location

Option 3

dancing through the golden fields of the valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	5 fields	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fields	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fields	amod
5	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dancing	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 valley	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 valley	det
8	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fields	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund				the golden fields of the valley			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Location

Option 4

skipping across the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	across	across	ADP	_	4 river	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 skipping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	gerund				the river			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across river=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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