Test 13 · ★ · The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2:…

Innit mad, how did the youth get the horse?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: youth · What happens: get · To what, where: horse

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1613 «The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2: a clever youth tricks a king, a shepherd and a dragon» 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 mad	compound
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 get	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 mad	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the youth	the horse					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus

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

He made it neigh loudly and then sneaked off into the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	neigh	neigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 neigh	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sneaked	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sneaked	advmod
8	sneaked	sneak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 sneaked	compound:prt
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 dark	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dark	det
12	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sneaked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	it				tree rules
2	neigh	infinitive					loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sneak off	past	He not said here		the dark	then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into dark=Destination

Option 2

He tricked the dragon into giving it up and rode off at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	nsubj
2	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tricked	obj
5	into	into	SCONJ	_	6 giving	mark
6	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tricked	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 giving	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 giving	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rode	cc
10	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tricked	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 rode	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 dawn	case
13	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	trick	past	He	the dragon		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient
2	give up	gerund	He not said here	dragon		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
3	ride off	past	He not said here		dawn	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He made it neigh and sneaked off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	neigh	neigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sneaked	cc
6	sneaked	sneak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 made	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 sneaked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past	He	it	tree rules
2	neigh	infinitive			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sneak off	participle	He not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He whistled and rode away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whistled	nsubj
2	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 rode	cc
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whistled	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 rode	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	He						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ride away	past	He not said here					away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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