Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…
Be honest, did the third bro ride over the road or round it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, do, round · To what, where: third bro ride, road, ride
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 honest | cop |
| 2 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 honest | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ride | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 ride | amod |
| 7 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ride | compound |
| 8 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ride | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 round | cc |
| 13 | round | round | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 honest | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 round | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 honest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | honest property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | you not said here | the third bro ride | the road | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | round | infinitive | you not said here | ride | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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
Straight over it, not round the edge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 3 it | advmod |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 edge | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 edge | advmod |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 edge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 edge | det |
| 8 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 it | vocative |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Straight over it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 3 it | advmod |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Right across it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 3 it | advmod |
| 2 | across | across | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
He rode straight over it at full speed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 speed | case |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 speed | amod |
| 8 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | He | it | at full speed; straight property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=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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