Test 12 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…
What came along the road on the third day?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: come · To what, where: road
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 237 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the start of The Black Bull of Norroway: the lad beats the bogles, the lass is saved, a fairy child burns her foot, and a girl sets out for her fortune» 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADP | _ | 5 road | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the road | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial_Location |
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 · ✓ the right answer
a coach-and-six, mate, dead fancy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 coach | det |
| 2 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 six | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 six | cc |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 and | punct |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 coach | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coach | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fancy | punct |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fancy | amod |
| 11 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coach | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a hay cart pulled by two oxen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cart | det |
| 2 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cart | compound |
| 3 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cart | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 oxen | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 oxen | nummod |
| 7 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pulled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | participle | a hay cart not said here | by two oxen | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
a pair of riders on dark steeds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pair | det |
| 2 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 riders | case |
| 4 | riders | rider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pair | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 steeds | case |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 steeds | amod |
| 7 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 riders | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a cart, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cart | det |
| 2 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cart | conj |
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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