Test 6 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ri…

so the mice got into a massive fight on the boat, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mice · What happens: get · To what, where: massive fight

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mice	det
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 fight	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fight	det
7	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fight	amod
8	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 boat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boat	det
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fight	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the mice			a massive fight on the boat			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into fight=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

yup, they argued for hours and then the ring fell out of a fish into the sea

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argued	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 argued	nsubj
4	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 hours	case
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 argued	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fell	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 fell	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ring	det
10	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 argued	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 fish	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 fish	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fish	det
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 sea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	they				hour	yup vocative	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	past	the ring			the sea	then	out a fish	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out fish=Initial_Location into sea=Destination

Option 2

yeah, they argued about the boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 argued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 argued	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 argued	nsubj
4	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 boat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boat	det
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	they					about the boat	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about boat=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, they just sat quietly now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	they				now	quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yup, they went from words to blows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 words	case
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 blows	case
8	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they			words		to blows; yup vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location to blow=Destination

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