Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ri…

bro, how did the sorcerer end up at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: do, end up · To what, where: sorcerer, end

This is test 8 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sorcerer	det
6	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the sorcerer					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorcerer=Eventuality
2	end up	present	bro				at the end		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 · ← Mova's choice

he was hung from a tall tree

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	3 hung	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hung	aux:pass
3	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past · passive		he		a tall tree			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

eaten by cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 cats	case
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	participle						by cats	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he was sent off to sea

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	3 sent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 sent	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 sea	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	past · passive		he		sea			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to sea=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

torn apart on a mule loaded with nuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	apart	apart	ADV	_	1 torn	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 mule	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mule	det
5	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 torn	obl
6	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mule	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 nuts	case
8	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 loaded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear apart	participle						on a mule; apart property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mule=Trajectory
2	load	participle		a mule not said here				with nuts	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nut=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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