Test 2 · ★ · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

wait, what blew the ship up, like a bomb or something?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, blow up · To what, where: ship

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 360 «Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a burning ship, a poor boy carves a butter lion, a prisoner finds a seed» 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	_	4 blew	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ship	det
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	4 blew	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bomb	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 bomb	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bomb	det
11	bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 something	cc
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 bomb	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blow up	past		the ship					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ship=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

A bomb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bomb	det
2	bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Lanterns in the hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lanterns	lantern	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hold	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hold	det
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lanterns	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Powder in the hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hold	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hold	det
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Powder	nmod

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

Option 4

A cannon ball hit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hit	det
2	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ball	compound
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	compound
4	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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