Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a…

lol the bald knight's wig flew off, what did his mates do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wig, mates · What happens: fly off, do

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 395 «Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a poor carpenter smashes his idol and gets 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 flew	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knight	det
3	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knight	amod
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wig	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 knight	case
6	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 flew	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flew	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mates	nmod:poss
13	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 do	nsubj
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 did	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 flew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	fly off	past	the bald knight's wig	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		tree rules
3	do	present	his mates	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 right answer

laughed their heads off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 heads	nmod:poss
3	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 laughed	obj
4	off	off	ADV	_	1 laughed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh off	past		their heads				off property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 2

they quietly went to find him a new wig from the market stall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 find	mark
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wig	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wig	amod
9	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 stall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stall	det
12	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stall	compound
13	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wig	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they					quietly property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	to-infinitive	they not said here	him = he					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme wig=Attribute

Option 3

ran off in shame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 ran	compound:prt
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 shame	case
4	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past				shame			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shame=Trajectory

Option 4

clapped and whooped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clapped	clap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 whooped	cc
3	whooped	whoop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 clapped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	participle							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whoop speech: other	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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