Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to…

ok real talk, what's rudy's line about falling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ok real talk, line · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: line

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 859 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to the eagle's nest» 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	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 line	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 line	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 line	cop
7	rudy	rudy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 line	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 rudy	case
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	appos
10	about	about	SCONJ	_	11 falling	mark
11	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 line	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	ok real talk	rudy's line					tree rules
2	fall	gerund	rudy's line not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Falls come to the coward alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 coward	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coward	det
5	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Falls			the coward		alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to coward=Initial_Location

Option 2

Falling is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Falling	falling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Falling					fine property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

no one falls unless afraid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	nsubj
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	5 afraid	mark
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 falls	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	no one						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

I fear falls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 fear	nsubj
2	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	present	I	falls					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fall=Stimulus

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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