Test 5 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ri…

ngl, what was the ring doing in his mouth at night?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, ring · What happens: be, do · To what, where: ring, mouth

This is test 5 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ring	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 ring	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ring	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 ring	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ngl	the ring					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the ring not said here			ngl's mouth	night		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

just chilling in there while he slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 chilling	advmod
2	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 chilling	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 chilling	advmod
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 slept	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 slept	nsubj
7	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chilling	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund				there			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	sleep	past	he						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

just chilling in there, like the whole night, while he slept on the mule

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 chilling	advmod
2	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 slept	advcl
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 there	case
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 chilling	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 night	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chilling	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slept	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 slept	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 slept	nsubj
13	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 mule	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mule	det
16	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund	he not said here				night		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	sleep	past	he					on the mule	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he kept it wrapped in a sock next to his bed and then swallowed it at dawn

The tree, 17 words

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj
4	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 kept	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sock	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sock	det
7	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrapped	obl
8	next	next	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	11 bed	case
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 bed	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bed	nmod:poss
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sock	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 swallowed	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 swallowed	advmod
14	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 swallowed	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 dawn	case
17	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swallowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	keep	past	he	it			tree rules
2	wrap	participle			a sock next his bed		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in sock=Destination
3	swallow	past	he not said here	bed		then; dawn	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

he kept it under his pillow

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 pillow	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pillow	nmod:poss
6	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl

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

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