Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his frien…
Innit wild that the ladder helped him out the well?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ladder · What happens: help out · To what, where: him
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1551 «Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his friends to get back what the King owes him» 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wild | compound |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 helped | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ladder | det |
| 5 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helped | nsubj |
| 6 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wild | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 helped | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 helped | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 well | det |
| 10 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helped | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wild | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help out | past | the ladder | him = he | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she bent down so he could climb up her back and escape the well, bare legend
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bent | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bent | nsubj |
| 4 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 bent | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 climb | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 climb | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 climb | aux |
| 9 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bent | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 climb | compound:prt |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 climb | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 escape | cc |
| 14 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 climb | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 well | det |
| 16 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 escape | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 legend | punct |
| 18 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 legend | amod |
| 19 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bent | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend down | past | she | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | climb up | could | he | her back | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location back=Theme | ||||
| 3 | escape | infinitive | he not said here | the well | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme well=Initial_Location |
Option 2
Yeah, she was a proper hero
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 hero | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hero | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hero | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hero | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hero | amod |
| 7 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | a proper hero | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she was a proper legend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 legend | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 legend | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 legend | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 legend | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legend | amod |
| 7 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | a proper legend | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, she let him climb on her back so he could get out, proper legend
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 let | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | obl |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 climb | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 legend | punct |
| 16 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 legend | amod |
| 17 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | she | him = he | proper legend obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | climb | infinitive | him = he not said here | her back | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | get out | could | he | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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