Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg3282), The Prince and the Crocodile: the he…

That duck was hella random, wasn't it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: duck · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: it

This is test 4 · ★ 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 random	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 random	cop
4	hella	hella	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 random	amod
5	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 random	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 it	cop
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 it	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 random	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 random	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that duck					random property	tree rules
2	not is a	past		it					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

Nah, it flew off and landed safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 flew	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 landed	cc
7	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 landed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	it						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	land	past						safe property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the duck was just flying home to its nest like any other duck would do

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 flying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duck	det
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flying	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flying	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 flying	advmod
7	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 flying	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 nest	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nest	nmod:poss
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flying	obl
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	17 do	mark
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 duck	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 duck	amod
15	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 flying	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past · progressive	the duck			duck's nest		home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to nest=Destination
2	do	would	any other duck						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it shot past and scared the prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shot	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shot	nsubj
4	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	past	past	ADV	_	4 shot	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 scared	cc
7	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shot	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	it					past property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	scare	past		the prince					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prince=Experiencer

Option 4

Yeah, it shot past him and scared the prince so badly that he fell straight into the water

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shot	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shot	nsubj
4	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shot	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 scared	cc
8	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shot	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scared	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 badly	advmod
12	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 scared	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 fell	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scared	advcl
16	straight	straight	ADV	_	19 water	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	it		past him = he	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	scare	past		the prince	badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prince=Experiencer
3	fall	past	he		into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result

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