Test 10 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ri…

lol so who ran to the palace while one mouse stayed on the boat?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one mouse · What happens: run, stay · To what, where: boat

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1416 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ring, then lose it at sea» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 stayed	mark
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 mouse	nummod
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stayed	nsubj
11	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 boat	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boat	det
14	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stayed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past						to the palace result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result
2	stay	past	one mouse			the boat			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on boat=Location

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 lame mouse and the queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
2	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mouse	amod
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 queen	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mouse	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the other two mice, both of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mice	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mice	amod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 mice	nummod
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mice	punct
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 mice	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 both	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the other two mice, who ran all the way to the palace and told the queen

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	4 mice	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mice	amod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 mice	nummod
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ran	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ran	nsubj
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 way	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ran	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 queen	det
17	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the other two mice	all way		the palace			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme to palace=Trajectory
2	tell speech: assert	past	the other two mice not said here		the queen				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient

Option 4

the queen and the captain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 captain	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 captain	det
5	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 queen	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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