Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go d…
Was the youngest prince sound with the basket trick?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: youngest prince sound
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1293 «Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go down the well, and the prince forges three crowns» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sound | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sound | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 sound | amod |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sound | compound |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 trick | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trick | det |
| 8 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trick | compound |
| 9 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sound | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sound | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the youngest prince sound | with the basket trick | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he dropped a stone in and it smashed
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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 dropped | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 smashed | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 smashed | nsubj |
| 10 | smashed | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dropped | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop in | past | he | a stone | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smash | past | stone | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Yeah, he dropped a stone in, and it smashed when the basket went down the well
The tree, 16 words
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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 dropped | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smashed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 smashed | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 smashed | nsubj |
| 11 | smashed | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dropped | conj |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 went | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 basket | det |
| 14 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 smashed | advcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 well | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 well | det |
| 18 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop in | past | he | a stone | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smash | past | stone | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | go down | past | the basket | the well | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient well=Extent |
Option 3
Yeah, he dropped a stone in the basket and it smashed to bits on the floor
The tree, 16 words
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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 basket | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 basket | det |
| 9 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smashed | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 smashed | nsubj |
| 12 | smashed | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dropped | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 bits | case |
| 14 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 smashed | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 floor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 floor | det |
| 17 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smashed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | he | a stone | the basket | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in basket=Destination | |||
| 2 | smash | past | stone | the floor | to bits result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to bit=Result |
Option 4
Yeah, he swapped himself for a rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 swapped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swapped | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swapped | nsubj |
| 4 | swapped | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 swapped | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rock | det |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | past | he | himself = he | for a rock | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme for rock=Co-Theme |
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