Test 4 · ★ · Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest,…

Was the ride on a donkey or a horse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ride · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 892 «Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest, and at sunrise Helga turns back into a girl» 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	Was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ride	det
3	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 donkey	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 donkey	det
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ride	nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 horse	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 donkey	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Was	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the ride on a donkey or a horse						vn exist-47.1 «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

A goat, no way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goat	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A horse, a proper gallop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gallop	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gallop	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gallop	amod
6	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horse	appos

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

Option 3

A cow, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cow	punct
4	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 cow	discourse

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

Option 4

A donkey, super slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slow	punct
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 slow	advmod
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 donkey	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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