Test 1 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, The White Dove, part 1: two reckless prin…

Oi, how did the princes even end up out at sea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi, princes · What happens: do, end up · To what, where: sea

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1653 «Pink Fairy Book, The White Dove, part 1: two reckless princes promise their unborn brother to a witch to escape a storm» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princes	det
6	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 end	nsubj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 end	advmod
8	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 end	compound:prt
10	out	out	ADV	_	8 end	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 sea	case
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Oi						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	end up	present	the princes			sea		out property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

they rowed out in a storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rowed	nsubj
2	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 rowed	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 storm	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 storm	det
6	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	row out	past	they			a storm			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

a sudden gale caught them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gale	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gale	amod
3	gale	gale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	a sudden gale	them = they					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a witch had sent a magic wind to drive them away from land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wind	det
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wind	compound
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 drive	mark
9	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drive	obj
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 drive	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 land	case
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive		a witch					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination wind=Theme
2	drive away	to-infinitive		them = they		land		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from land=Trajectory

Option 4

they went out to sea to hunt for pearls and treasure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 sea	case
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hunt	mark
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 pearls	case
9	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunt	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 treasure	cc
11	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pearls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	they					to sea; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hunt	to-infinitive	they not said here					for pearls and treasure	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for pearl=Theme

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