Test 5 · ★ · The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2:…

What's the bit where the bells went off, proper gutted?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bit, bells · What happens: be, go off, gut

This is test 5 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 went	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bells	det
7	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bit	acl:relcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 went	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gutted	punct
11	proper	properly	ADV	_	12 gutted	advmod
12	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 went	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the bit		tree rules
2	go off	past	the bells		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	gut	participle	the bells not said here	properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 little bells gave him away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bells	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bells	amod
3	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past	the little bells		him = he			away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

The kettle chain rang loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chain	det
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chain	compound
3	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rang	nsubj
4	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rang	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	the kettle chain					loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The bells on the bed covering rang out and the dragon woke up in a rage

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bells	det
2	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rang	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 bed	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bed	det
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bells	nmod
6	covering	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bed	acl
7	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 rang	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 woke	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dragon	det
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 woke	nsubj
12	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rang	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 woke	compound:prt
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 rage	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 rage	det
16	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 woke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	cover	gerund	the bed not said here		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	ring out	past	the bells on the bed		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wake up	past	the dragon	a rage	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The bed covering ringing gave him away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bed	det
2	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
3	covering	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bed	acl
4	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 covering	xcomp
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	cover	gerund	the bed not said here			tree rules
2	ring	gerund	the bed not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give away	past	the bed	him = he	away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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