Test 6 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, Peter and the Golden-haired Maiden: Pete…

what did Peter dream about, like a mad dream

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: dream

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 706 «Brown Fairy Book, Peter and the Golden-haired Maiden: Peter calls his dogs and wins back the girl» 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	4 dream	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dream	aux
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dream	nsubj
4	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 dream	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dream	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 dream	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dream	det
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dream	amod
10	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dream	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream	past · do-support	Peter					about property	vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Ring on hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 hand	case
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ring	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Shifting the ring to his other hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shifting	shift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shifting	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 hand	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shifting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shift	gerund		the ring		his other hand			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to hand=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Meeting the girl by the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Meeting	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Meeting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	gerund		the girl				by the river	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent

Option 4

Swapping the ring to his left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swapping	swap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swapping	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 left	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 left	nmod:poss
6	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swapping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	gerund		the ring				to his left	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme

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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