Test 4 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth…

Wait, what do you chuck at the raven?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, chuck · To what, where: raven

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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	_	6 chuck	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 chuck	obj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 chuck	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 chuck	nsubj
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 raven	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 raven	det
9	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obl
10	?	?	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	chuck	present · do-support	you			the raven			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent what=Theme at raven=Destination

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

Bits of oxen meat cut from the cart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 meat	case
3	oxen	oxen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meat	compound
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bits	nmod
5	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 meat	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 cart	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cart	det
8	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle		oxen meat not said here		the cart			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cart=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Bits of oxen meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 oxen	case
3	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bits	nmod
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bits	conj

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

Option 3

Bits of oxen meat and the golden bridle too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 meat	case
3	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meat	compound
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bits	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bridle	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bridle	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bridle	amod
8	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meat	conj
9	too	too	ADV	_	1 Bits	advmod

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

Option 4

Bits of cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 cheese	case
3	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bits	nmod

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/683-pg2435-part23/t4/