Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wake…

Did Death grab him from the front or the back, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Death · What happens: grab · To what, where: him, front

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 692 «Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wakes the dead and Death loses his prize, then a stone-cutter wishes for more» 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	3 grab	aux
2	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grab	nsubj
3	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grab	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 front	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 front	det
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grab	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 back	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 back	det
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 front	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 front	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 grab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past · do-support	Death	him = he		the front or the back and bruv			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from front=Source

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

Left side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 side	amod
2	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Front

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

From behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 behind	case
2	behind	behind	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

From the left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 left	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 left	det
3	left	left	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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