Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cu…

Wait, how fast was she going, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: wait, go

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2011 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cucullin is tricked, and Trembling rides to church» 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 going	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 going	nsubj
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	1 Wait	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	she					fast property	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

Like a rocket, mate, totally wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 rocket	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rocket	det
3	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wild	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rocket	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rocket	punct
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 wild	advmod
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Quicker than a horse, bro, sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 horse	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Quicker	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horse	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sound	punct
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horse	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Faster than the wind, like mad, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 wind	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Faster	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 fam	case
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fam	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mad	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wind	conj

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

Option 4

Super fast, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Super	super	ADV	_	2 fast	advmod
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fast	punct
4	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fast	nsubj

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

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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