Test 8 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Star Gazer

what happened to the snake nurse thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1506 «Red Fairy Book, The Star Gazer» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 thing	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nurse	compound
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	compound
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						to the nurse thing	vn occur-48.3-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

the snake bit the rosy nurse on the foot, mad, and the other nurses ran off screaming

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	nsubj
3	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
5	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nurse	amod
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 foot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 foot	det
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mad	punct
11	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 foot	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ran	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ran	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nurses	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nurses	amod
16	nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ran	nsubj
17	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bit	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 ran	compound:prt
19	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bite	past	the snake	the rosy nurse	the foot	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nurse=Patient on foot=Location
2	run off	past	the other nurses			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scream speech: express	gerund	the other nurses not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the snake nipped the nurse on the hand, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nipped	nsubj
3	nipped	nip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nurse	det
5	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nipped	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hand	det
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nipped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nip	past	the snake	the nurse		the hand and mate			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the snake bit the rosy nurse on the foot, mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	nsubj
3	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
5	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nurse	amod
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 foot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 foot	det
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mad	punct
11	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	the snake	the rosy nurse		the foot			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nurse=Patient on foot=Location

Option 4

the snake bit the rosy nurse on the foot and then slid off into the grass, mad

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	nsubj
3	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
5	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nurse	amod
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 foot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 foot	det
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slid	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 slid	advmod
12	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bit	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 slid	compound:prt
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 grass	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 grass	det
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mad	punct
18	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grass	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	the snake	the rosy nurse		the foot			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nurse=Patient on foot=Location
2	slide off	past	the snake not said here			the grass	then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into grass=Destination

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