Test 2 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: t…

wait, which brother booked it first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, brother · What happens: wait, book · To what, where: it

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1490 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: three brothers try to guard a meadow from a mysterious night raid» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 booked	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 brother	det
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 booked	nsubj
5	booked	book	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 booked	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 booked	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	book	past	which brother	it				first property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice

honestly the middle bro was the first one to run, then the eldest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	8 one	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bro	det
3	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bro	amod
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 run	mark
10	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 one	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eldest	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 eldest	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eldest	det
14	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the middle bro	the first one				the eldest nmod; honestly property	tree rules
2	run	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the eldest, honestly, he ran off quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 ran	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 eldest	punct
4	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 eldest	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 eldest	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ran	nsubj
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 ran	compound:prt
9	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ran	xcomp

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

Option 3

the eldest, no cap, he dipped like a rabbit right when the noise hit

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cap	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 cap	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cap	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 cap	det
5	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dipped	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cap	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dipped	nsubj
8	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 rabbit	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rabbit	det
11	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dipped	obl
12	right	right	ADV	_	8 dipped	advmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 hit	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 noise	det
15	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hit	nsubj
16	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dipped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip	past	the eldest cap					like a rabbit; right property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hit	past	the noise						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the eldest, no cap, he dipped like a rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cap	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 cap	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cap	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 cap	det
5	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dipped	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cap	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dipped	nsubj
8	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 rabbit	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rabbit	det
11	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip	past	the eldest cap					like a rabbit	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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