Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier…
Did the Eagle drop him in the sea?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Eagle · What happens: drop · To what, where: him, sea
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1737 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier gets rich from three dogs and a witch's trick» 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 Eagle | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Eagle | det |
| 3 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drop | nsubj |
| 4 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drop | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drop | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 drop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | the Eagle | him = he | the sea | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sea=Destination |
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, he dropped him in the sea but he got ashore just in time
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 dropped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dropped | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dropped | nsubj |
| 4 | dropped | drop | 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 dropped | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dropped | conj |
| 12 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 11 got | advmod |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 time | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | he | him = he | the sea | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sea=Destination | |||
| 2 | get | past | he | time | ashore property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he got ashore just in time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 time | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | time | ashore property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Nah, he flew off the rock, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rock | det |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rock | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | past | he | the rock and mate | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, the Eagle never flew over the sea, he walked back home along the coast, bruv
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Eagle | det |
| 4 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 flew | advmod |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 home | advmod |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 walked | advmod |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 17 coast | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 coast | det |
| 17 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bruv | punct |
| 19 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fly | past | the Eagle | the sea | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over sea=Location | ||||
| 2 | walk back | past | Eagle | the coast | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along coast=Trajectory |
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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