Test 11 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik ou…

Did the lady ride the colt with Peronnik or did she walk?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: ride, walk · To what, where: colt

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1320 «Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik outwits the lion, the dragons and the black man, then takes the golden bowl and diamond lance from Rogear» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ride	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lady	det
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ride	nsubj
4	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 colt	det
6	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ride	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Peronnik	case
8	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 colt	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 walk	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 walk	aux
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walk	nsubj
12	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ride	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ride	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · do-support	the lady	the colt				with Peronnik	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=Theme
2	walk	past · do-support	lady						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

She jumped up behind him on the colt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 jumped	compound:prt
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 colt	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 colt	det
8	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump up	past	She			the colt		behind him = he	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory

Option 2

She climbed onto the lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	onto	onto	ADP	_	5 lion	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lion	det
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	She					onto the lion	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto lion=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She jumped up behind him on the colt and held him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 jumped	compound:prt
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 colt	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 colt	det
8	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 held	cc
10	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 held	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump up	past	She			the colt		behind him = he	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory
2	hold	past	She not said here	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

She sat up in front of him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	She			front of him			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location

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