Test 2 · ★ · Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 50: Owen beats…

Wait, why did Owen's horse get stuck, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, horse · What happens: wait, do, get, innit

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1325 «Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 50: Owen beats the black knight and gets trapped in a drawbridge» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 horse	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Owen	case
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here		tree rules
3	get	present	Owen's horse	stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	innit	infinitive	you not said here		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

The drawbridge came up in the middle of it and trapped him there all night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drawbridge	det
2	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 middle	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 trapped	cc
11	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 trapped	obj
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 trapped	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trapped	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the drawbridge			the middle of middle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
2	trap	participle	the drawbridge not said here	drawbridge		there	night		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The drawbridge came up in the middle of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drawbridge	det
2	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the drawbridge			the middle of middle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The bridge dropped on the horse's leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bridge	det
2	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bridge	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 leg	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leg	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 horse	case
8	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	participle		the bridge not said here		the horse's leg			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory

Option 4

The drawbridge came up in the middle of it, so the castle men could rush him

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drawbridge	det
2	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 middle	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rush	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	16 rush	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 men	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 men	compound
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rush	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 rush	aux
16	rush	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rush	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the drawbridge			the middle of middle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
2	rush	could	the castle men	drawbridge					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent

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