Test 11 · ★ · The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: Geor…
Did the moth hang about?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moth · What happens: hang about
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 644 «The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: George and Jane race down a great ice slide and meet a sportsman, a collector and a white grouse» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hang | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moth | det |
| 3 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hang | nsubj |
| 4 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 hang | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang about | past · do-support | the moth | about property | vn assuming_position-50 «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
Nah, it flew off, no bother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 flew | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bother | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 bother | det |
| 8 | bother | bother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | past | it | no bother | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, it stepped out, no bother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stepped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 stepped | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bother | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 bother | det |
| 8 | bother | bother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step out | past | it | no bother | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, it stepped out, no bother, and flew off over the ice
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stepped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 stepped | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bother | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 bother | det |
| 8 | bother | bother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flew | cc |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stepped | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 flew | compound:prt |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 ice | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ice | det |
| 15 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step out | past | it | no bother | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly off | past | the ice | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ice=Location |
Option 4
Nah, it stepped out, no bother at all, and then it had a nap
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stepped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 stepped | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bother | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 bother | det |
| 8 | bother | bother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 bother | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 had | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stepped | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 nap | det |
| 17 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step out | past | it | no bother at all | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | bother | a nap | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Patient |
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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