Test 5 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and t…

Proper, what did the king's horse do in the valley?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: horse, valley

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1253 «Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and the hermit's prophecy» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 valley	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 valley	det
12	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the king's horse				properly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
2	do	present				the valley			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

slowed down a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slowed	slow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 slowed	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 slowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	participle		a lot					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

shook like jelly in the dark valley the whole way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 jelly	case
3	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shook	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 valley	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 valley	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 valley	amod
7	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shook	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shook	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past		the whole way		the dark valley		like jelly	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

shook at every step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 step	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 step	det
4	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shook	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past						at every step	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at step=Stimulus

Option 4

ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 ran	compound:prt

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

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