Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar…

wait, he walked all the way to London just cos of a dream?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, walk · To what, where: way

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 249 «English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar dreams of London Bridge and finds a treasure at home» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 London	case
9	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 way	nmod
10	just	just	ADV	_	14 dream	advmod
11	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 dream	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 dream	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dream	det
14	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	he	all way				to London result; cos a dream	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent way=Theme to london=Result

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

Nah, he rode there on a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rode	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	he			there		on a horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, three nights in a row, and then he walked all the way back again

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nights	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 nights	nummod
4	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 walked	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 row	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 row	det
7	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nights	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 walked	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 walked	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walked	nsubj
12	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	12 walked	obl:unmarked
16	back	back	ADV	_	17 again	advmod
17	again	again	ADV	_	12 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	three nights in a row	all way			then; again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he trudged for ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 trudged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trudged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trudged	nsubj
4	trudged	trudge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ages	case
6	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trudged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trudge	past	he				for ages		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, three nights on the trot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nights	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 nights	nummod
4	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 trot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trot	det
7	trot	trot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nights	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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