Test 13 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, The White Dove, part 1: two reckless prin…

Dude, what did the witch's feathers do when the wind came?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, feathers, wind · What happens: do, come

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feathers	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 witch	case
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 do	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Dude	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the witch's feathers	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the wind	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

fell onto the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	onto	onto	ADP	_	4 ground	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past				the ground			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme onto ground=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

were carried off by the wind into the far distance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	aux:pass
2	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 carried	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 distance	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 distance	det
9	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 distance	amod
10	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	past · passive	the wind					into the far distance	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

got swept into a heap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swept	aux:pass
2	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 heap	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 heap	det
5	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	past · passive				a heap			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: into heap=Destination

Option 4

were blown all the way into the sea and lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blown	aux:pass
2	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 way	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blown	obl:unmarked
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blown	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lost	cc
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 blown	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past · passive		all way		the sea			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: into sea=Product
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP 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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