Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg3282), The Prince and the Crocodile: the he…

Was the poor dog okay in the end, bro?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: poor dog · What happens: be · To what, where: end

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1242 «Fairy Tales (pg3282), The Prince and the Crocodile: the herb saves the prince from the crocodile» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 okay	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 okay	nsubj
5	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 okay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 okay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor dog				in the end and bro	okay property	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

Yeah, the dog ran off to the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the dog					to the palace result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result

Option 2

Nah, the dog swam to the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 swam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swam	nsubj
5	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bank	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bank	det
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swam	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the dog			the bank			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bank=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the poor old dog drowned in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dog	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dog	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drowned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle		the poor old dog not said here		the river			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, the dog was fine, but it lost its collar and ran off to find a new home

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fine	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fine	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lost	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 lost	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	parataxis
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 collar	nmod:poss
12	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 ran	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ran	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 home	det
19	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 home	amod
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dog		fine property	tree rules
2	lose	past	dog	dog's collar		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Eventuality
3	run off	past	dog not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	to-infinitive	dog not said here	a new home		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic

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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