Test 9 · ★ · Historic Tales, The Bell of Atri: an old horse pulls a gra…

deadass, where did the old horse go to find food?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deadass · What happens: go, find · To what, where: food

This is test 9 · ★ 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	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 go	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	xcomp
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	deadass						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	to-infinitive	deadass not said here	food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

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 dusty roads and rocky hills of the countryside, looking for any green grass

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 roads	det
2	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 roads	amod
3	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hills	cc
5	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hills	amod
6	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roads	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 countryside	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 countryside	det
9	countryside	countryside	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hills	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looking	punct
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 roads	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 grass	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 grass	det
14	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grass	amod
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						for any green grass	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for grass=Theme

Option 2

every dusty road, rocky hill, and farm field around the town, begging for scraps

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 road	det
2	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 road	amod
3	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hill	punct
5	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hill	amod
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 road	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 field	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 field	cc
9	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 field	compound
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 road	conj
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 field	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 begging	punct
15	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 road	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 scraps	case
17	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 begging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	gerund						for scraps	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for scrap=Topic

Option 3

the green fields by the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fields	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fields	amod
3	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fields	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the dusty roads and rocky hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 roads	det
2	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 roads	amod
3	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hills	cc
5	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hills	amod
6	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roads	conj

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

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