Test 2 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik ou…

Mate, how did Peronnik get past the dragons?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peronnik · What happens: get · To what, where: Mate

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	past	past	ADP	_	9 dragons	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dragons	det
9	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Peronnik	Mate				past the dragons	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past dragon=Destination

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

He chucked beads in, they went dead and he rowed the colt over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chucked	nsubj
2	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chucked	obj
4	in	in	ADV	_	2 chucked	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chucked	conj
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rowed	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rowed	nsubj
11	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chucked	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 colt	det
13	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rowed	obj
14	over	over	ADV	_	11 rowed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chuck	past	He	beads		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bead=Theme
2	go	past	beads = bead		dead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	row over	past	he	the colt	over property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=Theme

Option 2

He threw stones, they slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 slept	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slept	nsubj
6	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	He	stones					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	sleep	past	stones = stone						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He chucked beads in, they went dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chucked	nsubj
2	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chucked	obj
4	in	in	ADV	_	2 chucked	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chucked	conj
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past	He	beads					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bead=Theme
2	go	past	beads = bead					dead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He chucked beads in and they went dead, then he walked across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chucked	nsubj
2	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chucked	obj
4	in	in	ADV	_	2 chucked	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chucked	conj
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walked	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 walked	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walked	nsubj
12	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chucked	conj
13	across	across	ADV	_	12 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past	He	beads			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bead=Theme
2	go	past	beads = bead			dead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk	past	he		then	across property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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