Test 3 · ★★ · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants…
A family walks through a farm in Yorkshire in April. Their dog pulls towards the lambs. What is right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: family, dog · What happens: walk, pull, be · To what, where: farm
This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 301 «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the everyday 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
Sentence 1: A family walks through a farm in Yorkshire in April.
vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through farm=Trajectory
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.
vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on lead=Location
2
walk
infinitive
you not said here
calmly, past property
vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
Option 4
Let the dog off the lead to run and play with the lambs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Let
let
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
3 dog
det
3
dog
dog
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Let
obj
4
off
off
ADP
_
6 lead
case
5
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
6 lead
det
6
lead
lead
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Let
obl
7
to
to
PART
_
8 run
mark
8
run
run
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
1 Let
advcl
9
and
and
CCONJ
_
10 play
cc
10
play
play
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
8 run
conj
11
with
with
ADP
_
13 lambs
case
12
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
13 lambs
det
13
lambs
lamb
NOUN
Number=Plur
10 play
obl
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
let
imperative
you not said here
the dog
off the lead
vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2
run
to-infinitive
you not said here
vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3
play
infinitive
you not said here
with the lambs
vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with lamb=Co-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.