Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…
did the sailors actually turn back at the end?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sailors · What happens: do, turn back · To what, where: end
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sailors | det |
| 3 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 turn | advmod |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 did | ccomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 turn | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | turn back | present | the sailors | at the end | actually property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: 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
Yeah, back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 back | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nah, they went on for the feast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 feast | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | they | for the feast | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, they ran back to the ship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ship | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run back | past | they | the ship | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ship=Destination |
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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