Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleep…

Proper random, but how did the youth get across that river?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: be, get · To what, where: river

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1940 «Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleeping Princess and wins her kingdom» 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 random	amod
2	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 get	cc
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 get	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 how	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 youth	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 random	parataxis
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 random	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						how property	tree rules
2	get	present	the youth			that river			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across river=Destination

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

He waved the wand and the river parted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wand	det
4	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 parted	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 parted	nsubj
8	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waved	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	He	the wand					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Patient
2	part	past	the river						vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

He rode a horse through the flood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obj
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 flood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flood	det
7	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	He	a horse		the flood			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme through flood=Trajectory

Option 3

He just swam across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swam	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 swam	advmod
3	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	across	across	ADV	_	3 swam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	He					across property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He used the wand to bounce the waves apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wand	det
4	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bounce	mark
6	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waves	det
8	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bounce	obj
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	6 bounce	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	He	the wand					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Patient
2	bounce	to-infinitive	He not said here	the waves				apart property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Agent

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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