Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71…

Wait, did the boys sail him in a newspaper boat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, boys · What happens: wait, sail · To what, where: him, newspaper boat

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1747 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71: the soldier falls out of the window, sails in a paper boat, is swallowed by a fish, and melts in the stove» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sail	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sail	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sail	nsubj
6	sail	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sail	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 boat	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boat	det
10	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boat	compound
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sail	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sail	past · do-support	the boys	him = he		a newspaper boat			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, down the gutter and out into the canal, proper lush sailing trip, bruv

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gutter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gutter	punct
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 gutter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gutter	det
5	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 canal	cc
7	out	out	ADV	_	10 canal	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 canal	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 canal	det
10	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gutter	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lush	punct
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lush	amod
13	lush	lush	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 canal	appos
14	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 lush	acl
15	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sailing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct
17	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gutter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund	proper lush not said here	trip					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme trip=Trajectory

Option 2

Yeah, floated him off in a tin tray

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 floated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 floated	punct
3	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 floated	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 floated	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 tray	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tray	det
8	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tray	compound
9	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float off	past		him = he		a tin tray			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in tray=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, down the gutter, proper lush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gutter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gutter	punct
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 gutter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gutter	det
5	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lush	punct
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lush	amod
8	lush	lush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gutter	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yeah, they sailed him down the drain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sailed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	nsubj
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 sailed	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drain	det
8	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail down	past	they	him = he				the drain obl	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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