Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

wait, what did the robbers grab the horse by?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, robbers · What happens: wait, grab · To what, where: horse

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 893 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 104: robbers kill the priest and horse, and Helga, now a frog, buries him» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grab	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 grab	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 robbers	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robbers	det
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grab	nsubj
7	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grab	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	7 grab	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grab	present	the robbers	the horse					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary horse=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

its harness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 harness	nmod:poss
2	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

its tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

its bridle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bridle	nmod:poss
2	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the long leather reins and the saddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reins	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reins	amod
3	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reins	compound
4	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 saddle	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 saddle	det
7	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reins	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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