Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Wishes: a woodman spares a…
Did the Moon's light drive off the Bogles, bor?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: light, Moon · What happens: drive off, bor, light · To what, where: Bogles
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 250 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Wishes: a woodman spares a tree, gets three wishes, and wastes one on black pudding» 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drive | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 light | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Moon | case |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drive | nsubj |
| 6 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 Bogles | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bogles | det |
| 9 | Bogles | Bogle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 drive | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bor | punct |
| 11 | bor | bor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Bogles | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 drive | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive off | past · do-support | the Moon's light | the Bogles | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bogle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bor | infinitive | the Moon's light not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | light | the Moon | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice
No, they stayed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | they | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Yes, they fled to the marsh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 fled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fled | nsubj |
| 4 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 marsh | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 marsh | det |
| 7 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | they | the marsh | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to marsh=Initial_Location |
Option 3
No, they laughed at the light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 laughed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 light | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 light | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | they | the light | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, they fled into the dark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 fled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fled | nsubj |
| 4 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 dark | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dark | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | they | the dark | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into dark=Initial_Location |
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