Test 10 · ★ · A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the ol…

wait, who taught people to kick their legs like a frog?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, teach, kick · To what, where: people, legs

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» 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 taught	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 taught	nsubj
4	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taught	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 kick	mark
7	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 taught	xcomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kick	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 frog	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 frog	det
12	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kick	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	teach speech: other	past			people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
3	kick	to-infinitive		people's legs		like a frog	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent leg=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

the ducks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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

the frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

eels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

toads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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