Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50:…

What did the volunteer do, dead cheeky, at the railings?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: volunteer · What happens: do

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 839 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50: the watchman's soul visits the moon, then a volunteer's head sticks in the hospital railings» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 volunteer	det
4	volunteer	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cheeky	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cheeky	amod
8	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 do	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 railings	punct
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 railings	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 railings	det
12	railings	railing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cheeky	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the volunteer						vn act-114-1 «NP 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

Climbed over the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 wall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wall	det
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	participle				the wall			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory

Option 2

Ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	participle						away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wished his head through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wished	obj
4	through	through	ADP	_	1 Wished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past		his head					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot head=Theme

Option 4

Shouted loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Shouted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	participle						loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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