Test 7 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…

Wait, what did the bell go into when it dropped?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bell · What happens: wait, go, drop

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 357 «Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the abbot's buoy bell and his own ship is wrecked on the rock» 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	_	7 go	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 go	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bell	det
6	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	into	into	SCONJ	_	11 dropped	mark
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 dropped	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dropped	nsubj
11	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · do-support		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drop	past	bell	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

The sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The sea, going splash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sea	punct
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	the sea	splash					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location splash=Theme

Option 3

Waves, going whoosh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 going	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Waves	punct
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	whoosh	whoosh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	Waves	whoosh					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whoosh=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The water, going gurgle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 water	punct
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	gurgle	gurgle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	the water	gurgle					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gurgle=Theme

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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