Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Glass Axe, part 1: a prince who touches th…

Did the axe, like, survive the first hit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: axe · What happens: do, survive · To what, where: axe, first hit

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 axe	det
3	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 survive	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	7 survive	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 axe	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hit	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 hit	amod
10	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 survive	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the axe					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Eventuality
2	survive	infinitive	the axe not said here	the first hit					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hit=Circumstance

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 bent but didn't break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bent	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bent	nsubj
4	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 break	cc
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 break	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 break	advmod
8	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bent	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past	it						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not break	past · do-support							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nah, it shattered into a thousand little bits that flew all over the place and cut his face

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 shattered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shattered	nsubj
4	shattered	shatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	9 bits	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thousand	det
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 bits	nummod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bits	amod
9	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shattered	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 flew	nsubj
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bits	acl:relcl
12	all	all	ADV	_	15 place	advmod
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 place	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 place	det
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cut	cc
17	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shattered	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shatter	past	it		into thousand little bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bit=Result
2	fly	past	thousand little bits	the place		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme
3	cut	past		his face		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product

Option 3

Yeah, it survived the first hit and then he kept swinging it at the trees for hours

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 survived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 survived	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 survived	nsubj
4	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hit	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 hit	amod
7	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survived	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kept	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 kept	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 survived	conj
12	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 kept	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swinging	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 trees	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trees	det
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 swinging	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 hours	case
18	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 swinging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	survive	past	it	the first hit			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hit=Circumstance
2	keep	past	he			then	tree rules
3	swing	gerund	he not said here	hit	the trees	hour	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme at tree=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it smashed into a thousand bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 smashed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smashed	nsubj
4	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 bits	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thousand	det
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bits	nummod
8	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past	it					into thousand bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bit=Result

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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