Test 6 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a s…

what did the bull do when she yelled come back

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: yell, come back

This is test 6 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bull	det
4	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 yelled	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 yelled	nsubj
8	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	advcl
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come back	past · do-support							vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

came trotting back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 trotting	aux
2	trotting	trot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 trotting	advmod
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 trotting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trot back	past						home property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

turned around and galloped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	around	around	ADV	_	1 turned	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 galloped	cc
4	galloped	gallop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 turned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn around	past						around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	gallop	participle							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

he knelt

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 knelt	nsubj
2	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kneel	past	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

came running and knelt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 came	advcl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 knelt	cc
4	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	roles by
1	come	past	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kneel	past	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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