Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, The Two Friends: a king's poison fails, a…

was the friend really running after the prince the whole way?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend · What happens: run · To what, where: whole way

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 722 «Household Tales, The Two Friends: a king's poison fails, a friend is revived, and a saint asks for a baby's blood» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 running	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 running	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 running	advmod
5	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 prince	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 running	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 running	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 running	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · progressive	the friend	the whole way			after the prince		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

nah, he rode a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	he	a horse					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he ran day and night on foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 night	cc
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 foot	case
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	he			foot	day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory

Option 3

nah, he stopped to rest a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rest	mark
6	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stopped	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rest	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	rest	to-infinitive	he not said here	a lot					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lot=Theme

Option 4

yeah, he rode all the way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obj
8	home	home	ADV	_	4 rode	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	he	all way				home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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