Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth ste…

Was that stone just proper smashed to bits?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stone · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1681 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth steals the ring and gets ready to fight the 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 smashed	cop
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 smashed	mark
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smashed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 smashed	advmod
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 smashed	advmod
6	smashed	smashed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 bits	case
8	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smashed	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 smashed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	stone					to bits; properly, smashed property	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

Yeah, it cracked into bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cracked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cracked	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cracked	nsubj
4	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 bits	case
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cracked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	it					into bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bit=Result

Option 2

Yeah, one massive punch and it went into loads of pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 punch	nummod
4	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 punch	amod
5	punch	punch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 loads	case
10	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 pieces	case
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	one massive punch			loads of pieces			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into load=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he hit it, and it flew everywhere across the field, bruv

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flew	nsubj
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	conj
10	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 flew	advmod
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 field	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 field	det
13	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bruv	punct
15	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	he	it				bruv obl	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	fly	past	it			the field		everywhere property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, one punch, thousand pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 punch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 punch	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 punch	nummod
4	punch	punch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pieces	punct
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pieces	nummod
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 punch	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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