Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prin…

Bro, what did the cow do when she came up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, come up · To what, where: cow

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1207 «Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prince wins a wish and the king starts his tale» 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 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
11	up	up	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the cow	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Eventuality
2	do	present	Bro		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come up	past	Bro		vn escape-51.1-1 «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

Grazed on the grass, then went back into the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grazed	graze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 went	advcl
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 grass	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grazed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Grazed	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 went	advmod
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	graze	participle						on the grass	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=Patient
2	go back	past				the sea	then		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Grazed, then went back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grazed	graze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Grazed	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	graze	participle							vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go back	past					then		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Grazed a while, sang a song, then went back down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grazed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sang	punct
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Grazed	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 went	advmod
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Grazed	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	down	down	ADV	_	10 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	graze	past		while		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	past	a song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	go back	past		then	down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Drank, then swam away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drank	Drank	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 swam	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Drank	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 swam	advmod
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 swam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim away	past	Drank				then	away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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