Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…

What rule can he not break in Elfland?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rule · What happens: not break · To what, where: Elfland

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 rule	det
2	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 break	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 break	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 break	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 break	advmod
6	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Elfland	case
8	Elfland	Elfland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 break	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 break	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not break	can	what rule			Elfland			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in elfland=Location

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

Never bite, drink, or sleep, and kill every herd on sight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 bite	advmod
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drink	punct
4	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 bite	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sleep	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 sleep	cc
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bite	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kill	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kill	cc
10	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 bite	conj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 herd	det
12	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kill	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 sight	case
14	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not bite	imperative	you not said here			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	drink	infinitive	you not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	kill	infinitive	you not said here	every herd	sight	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Bite no bit, drink no drop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 bit	det
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bite	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drink	punct
5	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Bite	conj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 drop	det
7	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	imperative	you not said here	no bit					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
2	drink	infinitive	you not said here	no drop					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient

Option 3

Eat nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Don't speak to any herd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 speak	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 speak	advmod
3	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 herd	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 herd	det
6	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	imperative · do-support	you not said here					to any herd	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to herd=Co-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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