Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is c…

How did she mess up the water, proper careless?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: mess up · To what, where: water

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1706 «Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is carried off, meets the Rainbow, and breaks a bottle» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 mess	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mess	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mess	nsubj
4	mess	mess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 mess	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mess	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 careless	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 careless	amod
10	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mess	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mess up	past · do-support	she	the water					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

She knocked the basin over by accident while she was singing a song to herself

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 basin	det
4	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	2 knocked	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 accident	case
7	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 singing	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 singing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 singing	aux
11	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 knocked	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 song	det
13	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 singing	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 herself	case
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock over	past	She	the basin				by accident	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent basin=Theme by accident=Destination
2	sing speech: express	past · progressive	she	a song	herself = she				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to herself=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She knocked the basin over and then ran away from the monster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 basin	det
4	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obj
5	over	over	ADV	_	2 knocked	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 ran	advmod
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 ran	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 monster	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monster	det
12	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock over	past	She	the basin				over property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent basin=Patient
2	run away	past	She not said here				then	from the monster; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from monster=Trajectory

Option 3

The bottle cracked in her hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bottle	det
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cracked	nsubj
3	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cracked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	the bottle			her hand			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She knocked the basin over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 basin	det
4	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obj
5	over	over	ADV	_	2 knocked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock over	past	She	the basin				over property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent basin=Patient

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