Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an…

Bruv, did he nick the Princess right off the barge?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: nick · To what, where: Princess, barge

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1701 «Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an eagle, steals a Princess and hides her in a magic palace» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 nick	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nick	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nick	nsubj
5	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nick	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	11 barge	advmod
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 barge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 barge	det
11	barge	barge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nick	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · do-support	Bruv	the Princess		the barge		Bruv vocative	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent princess=Theme off barge=Source

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

yeah, swooped and grabbed her, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 swooped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 swooped	punct
3	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grabbed	cc
5	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swooped	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grabbed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swooped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop	past		innit					tree rules
2	grab	past		her = she					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

yeah, he dropped down and snatched her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 dropped	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 snatched	cc
7	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 snatched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop down	past	he						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	snatch	past	he not said here	her = she					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

nah, she hopped off herself, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hopped	nsubj
4	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 hopped	compound:prt
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 hopped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop off	past	she	herself = she				innit obl	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he never touched her, she just floated off the barge like a ghost, innit

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 touched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touched	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 touched	advmod
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 floated	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 floated	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 floated	advmod
10	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 touched	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	13 barge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 barge	det
13	barge	barge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floated	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 ghost	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ghost	det
16	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floated	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
18	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ghost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	past	he	her = she					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme
2	float	past	she			the barge		like a ghost and innit	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off barge=Trajectory

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