Test 10 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the childre…

Skive off, what tricked the captain's course?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: skive off, trick · To what, where: course

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» 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	Skive	skive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Skive	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tricked	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tricked	nsubj
5	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Skive	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 captain	det
7	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 course	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 captain	case
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Skive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skive off	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	trick	past		the captain's course					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient

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

a dark cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloud	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloud	amod
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a thick fog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fog	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fog	amod
3	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a grey sea mist rolling in from the east

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mist	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mist	amod
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mist	compound
4	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 mist	acl
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 rolling	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 east	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 east	det
9	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll in	gerund	a grey sea mist not said here			the east			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from east=Trajectory

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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