Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…

Be honest, did the brothers ride fast or slow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: honest brothers · What happens: be, ride

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» 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	6 brothers	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brothers	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ride	nsubj
7	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 ride	advmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 slow	cc
10	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fast	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 ride	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						honest property	tree rules
2	ride	present	the honest brothers					fast 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

slowly, not talking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 talking	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 slowly	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 talking	advmod
4	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	gerund						slowly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

fast and without a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 word	cc
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 word	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fast	conj

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

Option 4

slowly and in silence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 silence	cc
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 silence	case
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 slowly	conj

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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