Test 13 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the ani…
Yo, how did he get to the wood, in the end?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: get
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 2002 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the animals chase the robbers out of their house» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 6 get | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 get | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 end | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | parataxis |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | he | to the wood result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=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 · ✓ the right answer
crawled, one foot after another
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 foot | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 foot | nummod |
| 4 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 crawled | obl |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 another | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 crawled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | past | one foot | after another | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
he crawled on his hands and knees all the way
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 crawled | nsubj |
| 2 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 hands | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crawled | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 knees | cc |
| 7 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hands | conj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 way | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crawled | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | past | he | all way | his hands and knees | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory |
Option 3
he stumbled off the step
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 stumbled | nsubj |
| 2 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 step | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 step | det |
| 5 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stumbled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stumble | past | he | off the step | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off step=Trajectory |
Option 4
he walked slowly by the wall
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 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 wall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wall | det |
| 6 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | he | by the wall; slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wall=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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