Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

wait so the dove flew to the castle how, over land or over the sea?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, dove · What happens: wait, fly · To what, where: land

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dove	det
4	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 castle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 castle	det
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	obl
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 flew	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 land	punct
11	over	over	ADP	_	12 land	case
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 sea	cc
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 land	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			land or the sea			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Location
2	fly	past	the dove					to the castle result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to castle=Result

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

flying over the far-off deep blue sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	9 sea	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
4	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sea	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 off	punct
6	off	off	ADV	_	7 deep	advmod
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sea	amod
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sea	amod
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund				the far deep blue sea			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

over the deep sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	over	over	ADP	_	4 sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sea	amod
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

across the wide land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	across	across	ADP	_	4 land	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
3	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 land	amod
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

over the high hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	over	over	ADP	_	4 hills	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hills	det
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hills	amod
4	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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