Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…

Where did he sit when she slammed the door, mate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, she · What happens: sit, slam · To what, where: door

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 253 «English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hobyahs are beaten, the fool's mother dies, and a lass offers to help him» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 sit	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sit	nsubj
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 slammed	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 slammed	nsubj
7	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slammed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	vocative
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · do-support	he					mate vocative	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	slam	past	she	the door					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

by the road side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 side	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 side	det
3	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 side	compound
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

in the cold mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 mud	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mud	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mud	amod
4	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

on a rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 rock	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rock	det
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

sat on the grass beside the long dusty road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 grass	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sat	obl
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	9 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 road	amod
8	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 road	amod
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past				the grass		beside the long dusty road	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location

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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