Test 8 · ★ · Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, part 150: the Seer's ey…

Ostrich ride is wild, but he got on a swan too?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ostrich ride, he · What happens: be, get · To what, where: swan

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 939 «Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, part 150: the Seer's eyes are clouded, the Hearer's ears burst, and the third brother sets out» 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	Ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ride	compound
2	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wild	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wild	cop
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wild	parataxis
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 swan	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 swan	det
11	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obl
12	too	too	ADV	_	8 got	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wild	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ostrich ride					wild property	tree rules
2	get	past	he			a swan			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on swan=Source

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

Nah, just a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 horse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 horse	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the strongest swan, cos he loved change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 swan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swan	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swan	det
4	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 swan	amod
5	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loved	punct
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 loved	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loved	nsubj
9	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swan	acl:relcl
10	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	he	change					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus

Option 3

Yeah, a big swan, cause he was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 swan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swan	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 swan	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swan	amod
5	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bored	punct
7	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	10 bored	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bored	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bored	cop
10	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swan	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					bored property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he rode a camel, cause he loved sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 camel	det
6	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cause	punct
8	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loved	nsubj
10	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cause	acl:relcl
11	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	he	a camel				cause obl	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Theme
2	love	past	he	sand					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sand=Stimulus

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