Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear…

bro, what happened when the bed started rolling around?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro, bed · What happens: happen, start, roll around

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 103 «Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 6: the youth fights the cats and the wild bed in the castle» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 started	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bed	det
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 started	nsubj
8	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	advcl
9	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 started	xcomp
10	around	around	ADV	_	9 rolling	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	past	bro		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	past	the bed		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	roll around	gerund	the bed not said here	around property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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 · ✓ the right answer

it flipped over on him

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 flipped	nsubj
2	flipped	flip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 flipped	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flip over	past	it					on him = he; over property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on he=Destination

Option 2

it turned into a horse

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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 horse	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	it					into a horse result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into horse=Result

Option 3

it floated out a window

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 floated	nsubj
2	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 floated	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float out	past	it	a window					vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location window=Theme

Option 4

it stopped by the fire

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 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	it					by the fire	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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