Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the cas…

So the knight just fell down a trapdoor, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: knight · What happens: fall down · To what, where: trapdoor

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1263 «Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the castle» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 fell	advmod
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 fell	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trapdoor	det
8	trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fell	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	the knight	a trapdoor					vn occur-48.3 «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

Nah, he walked down the stairs and then fell into a pit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 stairs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stairs	det
7	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fell	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 fell	advmod
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 pit	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pit	det
13	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk down	past	he	the stairs					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory
2	fall	past	he not said here				then	into a pit result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pit=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he dropped right through it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 dropped	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he			it		right property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory

Option 3

Yeah, he dropped right through it into the dark pit below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 dropped	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	obl
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 pit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pit	det
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pit	amod
11	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl
12	below	below	ADV	_	11 pit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he			it		into the dark pit; right property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent through it=Destination into pit=Initial_Location

Option 4

Yeah, he slipped off the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 slipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slipped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slipped	nsubj
4	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 stairs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stairs	det
7	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip off	past	he	the stairs					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent stair=Patient

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