Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Glass Axe, part 1: a prince who touches th…

Mate, did the sister just ditch her little bro in the woods?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, ditch · To what, where: sister, little bro, woods

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1709 «Fairy Book, The Glass Axe, part 1: a prince who touches the ground is stolen by a Fairy and set an impossible task» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sister	det
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	iobj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 ditch	advmod
7	ditch	ditch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bro	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bro	amod
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ditch	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 woods	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woods	det
13	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ditch	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate		the sister				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Eventuality
2	ditch	present	Mate not said here	Mate's little bro		the woods			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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she forgot him once she was with her husband

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 forgot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forgot	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgot	nsubj
4	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgot	obj
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 forgot	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 husband	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 husband	cop
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 husband	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgot	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	she	him = he				once property	tree rules
2	is	past	she					with her husband	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she didn't forget him at all, she went straight back into the woods to find him and tell her husband

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 forget	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forget	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forget	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 forget	advmod
6	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forget	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 forget	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forget	parataxis
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 back	advmod
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 woods	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woods	det
17	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 went	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 forget	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 husband	nmod:poss
24	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not forget	past · do-support	she	him = he		all	tree rules
2	go	past	she			the woods	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
3	find	to-infinitive	she not said here	him = he			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	she not said here		her husband		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient

Option 3

Yeah, she left him for her husband's sake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 sake	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sake	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 husband	case
10	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	she	him = he				for her husband's sake	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme for sake=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, she totally forgot about him the second she got to the village and saw her husband again, poor kid

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 forgot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 forgot	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgot	nsubj
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 forgot	advmod
5	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgot	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 second	det
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 got	nsubj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forgot	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 village	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 village	det
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forgot	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 husband	nmod:poss
18	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
19	again	again	ADV	_	16 saw	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kid	punct
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 kid	amod
22	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	she			about him = he; totally property	tree rules
2	get	past	the second			to the village result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result
3	see	past	she not said here	her husband	again	poor kid obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus

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