Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71…

Innit mad that a fish swallowed him whole?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish · What happens: swallow · To what, where: him

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mad	compound
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 swallowed	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallowed	nsubj
6	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mad	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swallowed	obj
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swallowed	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	a fish	him = he				whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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, wicked, he was just chilling inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 wicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wicked	punct
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chilling	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chilling	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chilling	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 chilling	advmod
8	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wicked	parataxis
9	inside	inside	ADV	_	8 chilling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · progressive	he					inside property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Yeah, wicked, he got swallowed by a fish at the market and then the cook opened it up later

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 wicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wicked	punct
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 swallowed	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 swallowed	nsubj:pass
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swallowed	aux:pass
7	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wicked	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 fish	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swallowed	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 market	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 market	det
13	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fish	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 opened	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 opened	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cook	det
17	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	nsubj
18	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wicked	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 opened	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 opened	compound:prt
21	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 opened	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past · passive	a fish at the market	he					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	open up	past	the cook	market			then	late property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, mad, he was just sitting in there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sitting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 sitting	advmod
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 mad	conj
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 sitting	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sitting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in	past · progressive	he			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, wicked, the fish swallowed him whole and he sat in the dark belly for ages

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 wicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wicked	punct
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 swallowed	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swallowed	nsubj
7	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wicked	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 swallowed	obj
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 swallowed	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swallowed	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 belly	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 belly	det
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 belly	amod
16	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 ages	case
18	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	the fish	him = he				whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	sit	past	fish			the dark belly	for ages		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in belly=Location

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