Test 13 · ★ · A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the ol…

bro what did the company ride away in?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: do, ride · To what, where: company

This is test 13 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	nsubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 bro	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 company	det
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 ride	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 away	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ride	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	bro	the company					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Eventuality
2	ride	present	bro					away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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

a cart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cart	det
2	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

an open omnibus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 omnibus	det
2	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 omnibus	amod
3	omnibus	omnibus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a hired brougham

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 brougham	det
2	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 brougham	amod
3	brougham	brougham	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hire	participle							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a huge covered wagon drawn by two horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wagon	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wagon	amod
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wagon	amod
4	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wagon	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 horses	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 horses	nummod
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle							vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	draw	participle		a huge covered wagon not said here				by two horses	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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