Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, pa…

what did the snakes do when the queen walked by?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do, walk · To what, where: snakes

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 647 «Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, part 1: a Queen buys a baby from a witch, and the King is furious» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snakes	det
4	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walked	nsubj:pass
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 walked	aux
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 walked	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 queen	det
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walked	nsubj
9	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	9 walked	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	walk	present · passive · do-support		the snakes					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

they waved at her happily

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	2 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	obl
5	happily	happily	ADV	_	2 waved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	they					at her = she; happily property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location

Option 2

they all tried to curtsy while hanging from the arch by their tails

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 tried	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 they	det
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 curtsy	mark
5	curtsy	curtsy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 hanging	mark
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 curtsy	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 arch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 arch	det
10	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hanging	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 tails	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tails	nmod:poss
13	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	they			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	curtsy not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here			tree rules
3	hang	gerund	they not said here	the arch	by their tails	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tail=Location

Option 3

they stuck out tongues rudely

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	2 stuck	nsubj
2	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 stuck	compound:prt
4	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stuck	obj
5	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	2 stuck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick out	past	they	tongues				rudely property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

tried to curtsy, hanging by their tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 curtsy	mark
3	curtsy	curtsy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 tried	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hanging	punct
5	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 curtsy	conj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 tails	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tails	nmod:poss
8	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	try	past		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	curtsy not said to happen	to-infinitive		tree rules
3	hang	gerund	by their tails	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tail=Location

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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