Test 1 · ★ · The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, pa…

Oi, wasn't the prince well lost out there, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not lose out, innit · To what, where: Oi

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1200 «The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, part 1: a prince chases a deer, gets lost in the desert and meets a barefoot stranger who is a lost king» 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	Oi	Oi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lost	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux:pass
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 lost	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	nsubj:pass
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 lost	advmod
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	out	out	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lost	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lost	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lose out	past · passive		Oi		there		well property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	innit	infinitive							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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he lost his men and his horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 men	nmod:poss
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 horse	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 horse	nmod:poss
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	his men					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality

Option 2

Nah, he got home safe and sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sound	cc
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 safe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					home, safe property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yeah, he lost his men and his horse out in the desert and nearly died

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 men	nmod:poss
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 horse	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 horse	nmod:poss
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	4 lost	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 desert	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 desert	det
13	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 died	cc
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	16 died	advmod
16	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose out	past	he	his men and his horse		the desert			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	die	past	he not said here					nearly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the sand took his men too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sand	det
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 men	nmod:poss
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	5 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the sand		sand's men				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination

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