Test 13 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…

Did he chase a stag and then fall into a pit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: chase, fall · To what, where: stag, pit

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chase	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chase	nsubj
3	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stag	det
5	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chase	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fall	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 fall	advmod
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 chase	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pit	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pit	det
11	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chase	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past · do-support	he	a stag					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme
2	fall	infinitive	he not said here				then	into a pit result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pit=Result

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

Yeah, the river froze and he slipped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 froze	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 froze	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 froze	nsubj
5	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slipped	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slipped	nsubj
8	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 froze	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past	the river						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	slip	past	river						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the stag fell into a lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stag	det
4	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 lake	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the stag					into a lake result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into lake=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the pool dried up and he fell down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dried	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pool	det
4	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dried	nsubj
5	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 dried	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fell	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dried	conj
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry up	past	the pool						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fall down	past	pool					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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