Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11:…

Bruv, why was the wolf's bucket dropping so fast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bucket · What happens: be, drop · To what, where: bucket

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1145 «Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11: the fox tricks the wolf, and Ian gets a hard task» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bucket	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 bucket	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bucket	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bucket	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 wolf	case
8	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	dropping	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 bucket	acl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 fast	advmod
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 dropping	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 bucket	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the wolf's bucket				Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	drop	gerund	the wolf's bucket not said here					fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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

Cos the well was wonky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 well	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 well	det
3	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wonky	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wonky	cop
5	wonky	wonky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						cos the well; wonky property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he was massive, like four times the fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 massive	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 massive	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 massive	cop
4	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 massive	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 times	case
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 massive	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3

Cos someone pushed it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 pushed	mark
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 pushed	nsubj
3	pushed	push	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 pushed	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 pushed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push down	past	someone	it					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Cos the rope snapped right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 rope	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rope	det
3	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snapped	obl
4	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 snapped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past						cos the rope; away property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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