Test 3 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Ni…
wait, why didn't they just travel at night tho?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, they · What happens: wait, not do, travel · To what, where: night tho
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 709 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Niels shoots at three giants and is caught» 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 | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | advcl |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 travel | nsubj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 travel | advmod |
| 8 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 tho | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tho | compound |
| 11 | tho | tho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 travel | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | 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 | not do | past | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | travel | present | they | night tho | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tho=Trajectory |
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 · ✓ the right answer
they could get lost or jumped by robbers
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 | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux |
| 3 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lost | aux:pass |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 jumped | cc |
| 6 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | conj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 robbers | case |
| 8 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 jumped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | could · passive | they | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | jump | past | by robbers | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by robber=Trajectory |
Option 2
they'd get tired
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 get | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | they | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
the roads were full of robbers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 roads | det |
| 2 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 robbers | case |
| 6 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the roads | of robbers; full property | tree rules |
Option 4
they would wake the whole village up
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 wake | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wake | aux |
| 3 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 village | amod |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wake | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 wake | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | would | they | the whole village | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent village=Patient |
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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