Test 6 · ★ · Historic Tales, The Bell of Atri: an old horse pulls a gra…

bro, the judges wanted a rope that hit the ground, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judges, rope · What happens: want, hit · To what, where: rope, ground

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 349 «Historic Tales, The Bell of Atri: an old horse pulls a grape-vine, the bell of justice rings, and the judges make the greedy miser share his gold» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 judges	det
4	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rope	det
7	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 hit	nsubj
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rope	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the judges	a rope				bro vocative	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rope=Theme
2	hit	past	a rope	the ground					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme

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

no, for the tall men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 men	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 men	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 men	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

yes, for the bell tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 tower	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tower	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 tower	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tower	det
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tower	compound
6	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yes, for the smallest child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 child	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 child	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yes, because the smallest child needs to be able to reach it from the ground

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 needs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 needs	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 needs	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	nsubj
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 able	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 able	cop
10	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 needs	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 reach	mark
12	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 able	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reach	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reach	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	need	present	the smallest child				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the smallest child not said here			able property	tree rules
3	reach	to-infinitive	the smallest child not said here	child	the ground		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from ground=Source

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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