Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with l…

Did the swallow actually go down and find out what was going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: swallow, go down, find out, go on · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1704 «Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with lynx claws, cuts the eagle's feet, and wins the Princess» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swallow	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swallow	det
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swallow	xcomp
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 find	cc
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 find	compound:prt
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 going	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 find	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 going	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 swallow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	swallow	past · do-support		tree rules
2	go down	infinitive	actually, down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	find out	infinitive		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go on	past · progressive		vn function-105.2.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it went and came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	past							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

No, it sat on a branch for a long time and only pretended to fly down to look

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 branch	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 branch	det
7	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pretended	cc
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 pretended	advmod
14	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sat	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fly	mark
16	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pretended	xcomp
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 fly	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 look	mark
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fly	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	it	a branch	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location
2	pretend	participle					tree rules
3	fly down	to-infinitive				down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	to-infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it zipped down and came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 zipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 zipped	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 zipped	nsubj
4	zipped	zip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 zipped	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 zipped	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	zip down	past	it						vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	come back	past							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, it flew down and returned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 flew	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 returned	cc
7	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 flew	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly down	past	it						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return	participle							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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