Test 12 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, part 1: Manstin fin…

how'd the fish and turtle end up, did they lose?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish · What happens: end up, lose

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1275 «Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, part 1: Manstin finds his eyes again, then seven friends set out to make war and the first warriors drop away» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 end	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 fish	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 turtle	cc
6	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fish	conj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lose	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 end	punct
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lose	aux
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lose	nsubj
12	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	present	the fish and turtle						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	lose	past · do-support	fish						vn succeed-74-3-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

they lost badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 lost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	they					badly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

they swam back in shame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swam	nsubj
2	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 swam	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 shame	case
5	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swam	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim back	past	they			shame			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shame=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they went home happy winners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 winners	amod
5	winners	winner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they	happy winners				home property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location winner=Theme

Option 4

they lost and went home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	they						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	they not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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