Test 13 · ★ · Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince…

So he smears himself in mud and jumps in, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: smear, jump · To what, where: himself, mud

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1455 «Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince dives into the river as a crab» 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	_	3 smears	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smears	nsubj
3	smears	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 smears	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 mud	case
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smears	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 jumps	cc
8	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smears	conj
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 jumps	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 in	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 jumps	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 smears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smear	present	he	himself = he		mud			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in mud=Destination
2	jump	present	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Nah, he smears mud all over his face and then goes to the bridge and tells the crows all about it, innit

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 smears	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smears	nsubj
4	smears	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smears	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 face	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 face	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smears	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 goes	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 goes	advmod
12	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smears	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 bridge	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bridge	det
15	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 goes	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tells	cc
17	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smears	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crows	det
19	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tells	obj
20	all	all	ADV	_	22 it	advmod
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tells	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 innit	punct
24	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 smears	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smear	present	he	mud		his face			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mud=Theme over face=Destination
2	go	present	he not said here			the bridge	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bridge=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert	present	he not said here		the crows			about bridge	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent crow=Recipient about it=Topic
4	innit	infinitive	he not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he covers himself in mud and then turns into a crab and jumps in the river, proper dramatic

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 covers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 covers	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 covers	nsubj
4	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 covers	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 mud	case
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covers	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turns	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 turns	advmod
10	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 covers	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 crab	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 crab	det
13	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turns	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 jumps	cc
15	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 turns	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 jumps	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dramatic	punct
20	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dramatic	amod
21	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 river	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present	he	himself = he			in mud	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination in mud=Theme
2	turn	present	he not said here			then	into a crab result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into crab=Result
3	jump	present	he not said here		the river			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Trajectory

Option 3

Yeah, he rubs mud on and dives in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rubs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rubs	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rubs	nsubj
4	rubs	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rubs	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	4 rubs	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dives	cc
8	dives	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rubs	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 dives	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub on	present	he	mud					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mud=Theme
2	dive in	present	he not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, as a crab, straight in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 crab	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crab	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 crab	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crab	det
5	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 river	punct
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 river	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crab	appos

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

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