Test 4 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…

Did both the rocks fall off, like, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rocks · What happens: fall off

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rocks	aux
2	both	both	CCONJ	_	4 rocks	cc:preconj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rocks	det
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fall	nsubj
5	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 fall	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	5 fall	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 fall	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	present	the rocks						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Neither fell at first, then one came off down the ravine, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 first	case
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 fell	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 came	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
9	off	off	ADV	_	8 came	compound:prt
10	down	down	ADP	_	12 ravine	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ravine	det
12	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	INTJ	_	2 fell	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Neither						vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at first=Location
2	come off	past	one				then	down the ravine	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One fell, then the other one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 one	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	One	the other one					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

One fell off first, then the other one rolled away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 fell	compound:prt
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 fell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 one	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	conj
10	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 one	acl
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 rolled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	One					first property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	roll away	participle		the other one not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The first one fell off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 fell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	the first one						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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