Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras ki…

Bro, why'd the king go down in the brambles?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: go down

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1195 «Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras kills the Stalo's dog and takes his gold, then the sick king gets a magic slipper» 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	7 go	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 brambles	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brambles	det
11	brambles	bramble	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	infinitive	the king					in the brambles; Bro vocative; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bramble=Attribute

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

He chased a stag, slipped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stag	det
4	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chased	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 slipped	punct
6	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chased	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	He	a stag					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme
2	slip	past	He not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

He tripped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tripped	nsubj
2	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	past	He						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He chased boars and fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	boars	boar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chased	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fell	cc
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chased	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	He	boars					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme
2	fall	past	He not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	He						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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