Test 8 · ★ · Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe,…
Why was Trembling stuck in the closet?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: tremble
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2012 «Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe, a hunt for its owner, and a girl locked in a closet» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 Trembling | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Trembling | aux |
| 3 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Trembling | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 closet | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 closet | det |
| 7 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Trembling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past · progressive | stuck property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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
the sisters bolted the closet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sisters | det |
| 2 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bolted | nsubj |
| 3 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 closet | det |
| 5 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bolted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bolt | past | the sisters | the closet | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent closet=Patient |
Option 2
they locked her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 locked | nsubj |
| 2 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 locked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past | they | her = she | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the sisters locked the door on her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sisters | det |
| 2 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 locked | nsubj |
| 3 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 locked | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 locked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past | the sisters | the door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent door=Patient her=Result |
Option 4
the sisters hid the key away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sisters | det |
| 2 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 key | det |
| 5 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 hid | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide away | past | the sisters | the key | away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient |
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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