Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wit…

Did the cricket make it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cricket · What happens: make · To what, where: it

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1251 «Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wither, and the gnome's fresh turnips go missing» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cricket	det
3	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	the cricket	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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, a stork gobbled it up near the river and the cricket fell in, mate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 gobbled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stork	det
4	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gobbled	nsubj
5	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gobbled	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 gobbled	compound:prt
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gobbled	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cricket	det
13	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gobbled	conj
15	in	in	ADV	_	14 fell	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mate	punct
17	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobble up	past	a stork	it		the river			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fall in	past	the cricket					mate vocative	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, it reached him fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reached	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	obj
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reached	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	it	him = he				fine property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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

Nah, a stork gobbled it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 gobbled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stork	det
4	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gobbled	nsubj
5	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gobbled	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 gobbled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobble up	past	a stork	it					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Nah, a swallow nabbed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 swallow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 swallow	det
4	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	nabbed	nab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 swallow	acl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nab	participle	a swallow not said here	swallow					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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