Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud…

Wait, how'd the angel's blood drop mess the ship up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, mess up · To what, where: blood drop

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» 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	_	10 mess	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 mess	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	9 drop	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 angel	det
6	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drop	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 angel	case
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drop	compound
9	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mess	obl
10	mess	mess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ship	det
12	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mess	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	10 mess	compound:prt
14	?	?	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	mess up	present	you not said here	the angel's blood drop					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

It got stuck and weighed it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 weighed	cc
5	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 weighed	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 weighed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	It					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	weigh down	past		it					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value

Option 2

It broke it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	It	it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

Option 3

It cracked the mast in two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cracked	nsubj
2	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mast	det
4	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cracked	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 two	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cracked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	It	the mast		two			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mast=Theme

Option 4

It leaked through the hull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaked	nsubj
2	leaked	leak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 hull	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hull	det
5	hull	hull	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leak	past	It			the hull			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hull=Location

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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