Test 4 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship…

wait, so the King just gave the ring away?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, King · What happens: wait, give away · To what, where: ring

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1415 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship turns black after the old man steals the ring» 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	_	7 gave	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 gave	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gave	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 gave	advmod
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 gave	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give away	past	the King	the ring				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ring=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

No, he kept it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he gave the bronze ring to the old man for red fishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ring	det
6	bronze	bronze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ring	amod
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 man	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 fishes	case
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fishes	amod
14	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 man	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	the bronze ring	the old man for red fishes				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to man=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, he sold it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	he	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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