Test 4 · ★ · Old French Fairy Tales, Donkey-skin, part 18: the ring is…

so the ring fell in the cake on purpose or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ring · What happens: fall · To what, where: cake

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1093 «Old French Fairy Tales, Donkey-skin, part 18: the ring is tried on every finger» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cake	det
7	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 purpose	case
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the ring			the cake		on purpose	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cake=Location

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

it was an accident

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	4 accident	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 accident	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 accident	det
4	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a accident					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the story says the goose girl dropped it there on purpose to win him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 girl	compound
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	nsubj
7	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dropped	obj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 dropped	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 purpose	case
11	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 win	mark
13	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dropped	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the story			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drop	past	the goose girl	story	purpose; there	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on purpose=Destination
3	win	to-infinitive	the goose girl not said here	him = he		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nobody knows for sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 sure	case
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	nobody					for sure	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

the prince did it himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 did	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the prince	it				prince obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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