Test 11 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a s…
did Europa scream while they were riding
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Europa, they · What happens: scream, ride
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2055 «Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a snow-white bull into the sea» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scream | aux |
| 2 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 scream | nsubj |
| 3 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 riding | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 riding | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 riding | aux |
| 7 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 scream | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past · do-support | Europa | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ride | past · progressive | they | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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
yeah, but with delight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 delight | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 delight | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 delight | cc |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 delight | case |
| 5 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, she screamed loudly with fear the whole way out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 screamed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 screamed | nsubj |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 4 screamed | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fear | case |
| 7 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | parataxis |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 way | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | she | with fear; loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fear=Theme |
Option 3
nope, she was silent, but she waved to her brothers all the way
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 silent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 silent | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 silent | cop |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 waved | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 waved | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 waved | nsubj |
| 9 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 silent | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 brothers | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 waved | obl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 way | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waved | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wave | past | she | all way | her brothers | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient |
Option 4
yeah, but happily
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 happily | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 happily | cc |
| 4 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | root | root |
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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