Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Glass Axe, part 1: a prince who touches th…

Hold up, so the hare just ran off and nobody caught it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, hare, nobody · What happens: hold up, run off, catch · To what, where: hare

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 ran	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hare	det
6	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 ran	advmod
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	parataxis
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 ran	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 caught	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 caught	nsubj
12	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ran	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 caught	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	run off	past	the hare		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	past	nobody	hare	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

Nah, the horses scared it off before he got close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horses	det
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scared	nsubj
5	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 scared	compound:prt
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 got	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	advcl
11	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare off	past	the horses	it					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
2	get	past	he					close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Nah, he missed it by a mile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 missed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 missed	nsubj
4	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 missed	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 mile	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mile	det
8	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 missed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	he	it				by a mile	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he nearly got it, then his girth broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 broke	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 broke	advmod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 girth	nmod:poss
10	girth	girth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	nsubj
11	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	it				nearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	break	past	his girth				then		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he caught it, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 caught	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	he	it				bruv obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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