Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child…
How far did the horse zoom, like was it dead fast or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zoom · What happens: do, be · To what, where: horse zoom
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 221 «Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child judges a thief, then a magic horse appears» 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 zoom | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 zoom | compound |
| 6 | zoom | zoom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dead | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 dead | case |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dead | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dead | nsubj |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | parataxis |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 dead | advmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 what | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 dead | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the horse zoom | far property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zoom=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | zoom | dead, fast property | tree rules |
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
Yeah, like a bullet, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 bullet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bullet | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 bullet | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bullet | det |
| 5 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bullet | vocative |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, dead fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 dead | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 dead | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, it crawled along slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 crawled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crawled | nsubj |
| 4 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 crawled | advmod |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 crawled | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | past | it | along, slowly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, quick as lightning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 quick | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
| 3 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 lightning | case |
| 5 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quick | obl |
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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