Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the Nixy: the hunter is…

bro, why did the nixy grab the hunter at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nixy · What happens: grab · To what, where: hunter, all

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1703 «Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the Nixy: the hunter is pulled under the pond, and his wife wins him back» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grab	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 grab	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grab	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nixy	det
6	nixy	nixy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grab	nsubj
7	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bro	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hunter	det
9	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grab	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 hunter	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past · do-support	the nixy	the hunter		all			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=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 · ← Mova's choice

he went to the pond to wash his hands after the hunt and got grabbed

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 pond	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pond	det
5	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wash	mark
7	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wash	obj
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 hunt	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hunt	det
12	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wash	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
15	grabbed	grab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	he		the pond		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location
2	wash	to-infinitive	he not said here	his hands		after the hunt	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	get	past	he not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	grab	participle	he not said here				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he went near the pond he was told to avoid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 pond	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pond	det
5	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pond	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 avoid	mark
10	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	he		the pond	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near pond=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	avoid not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he swam out to catch a big fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swam	nsubj
2	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 swam	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 catch	mark
5	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 swam	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fish	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fish	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim out	past	he					out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	to-infinitive	he not said here	a big fish					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

Option 4

he was told to fish in the pond and dived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 fish	case
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pond	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pond	det
8	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dived	cc
10	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		he	fish	the pond			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to fish=Recipient
2	dive	past							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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