Test 10 · ★ · Hibernian Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of Glen: t…

The Queen going off the tower, was she mad or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: go off, be · To what, where: tower

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1518 «Hibernian Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of Glen: the Thief's last tale saves the youngest prince» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mad	nsubj
3	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Queen	acl
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 tower	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tower	det
6	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Queen	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mad	cop
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mad	nsubj
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 mad	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	gerund	the Queen not said here	the tower					tree rules
2	is	past	the Queen					mad property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

she threw herself down in spite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 threw	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 spite	case
6	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	past	she	herself = she		spite			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in spite=Destination

Option 2

she jumped in a rage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 rage	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rage	det
5	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	she			a rage			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rage=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

she fell down in anger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 anger	case
5	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	she			anger		down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in anger=Location

Option 4

she threw herself down from the tower in spite and rage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 threw	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 tower	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tower	det
7	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 spite	case
9	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rage	cc
11	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spite	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	past	she	herself = she		the tower		in spite and rage	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in spite=Destination

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