Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Elsa and Kisika, part 2: Elsa is taken into a…

Who took Elsa's rags while she was asleep?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Elsa · What happens: take, be · To what, where: rags

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1751 «Fairy Tales, Elsa and Kisika, part 2: Elsa is taken into a magic garden, sails a sea made from a shell, and becomes a new daughter» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rags	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Elsa	case
5	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 asleep	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asleep	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		Elsa's rags					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rag=Theme
2	is	past	Elsa					asleep property	tree rules

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

Her stepmum came for them at night, you can tell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stepmum	nmod:poss
2	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Her stepmum				night	for them = they	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	can	you						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Kisika took them while Elsa slept, then hid them in the box with the shell and fish scales until morning

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kisika	Kisika	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 slept	mark
5	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 slept	nsubj
6	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hid	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 hid	advmod
9	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hid	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 box	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 box	det
13	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hid	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 shell	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shell	det
16	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hid	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 scales	cc
18	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scales	compound
19	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shell	conj
20	until	until	ADP	_	21 morning	case
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Kisika	them = they				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	sleep	past	Elsa					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hide	past	Kisika not said here	them = they	the box	then; morning	with the shell and fish scales	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in box=Location

Option 3

The old man did it, he was always sneaky with clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	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 did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sneaky	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sneaky	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sneaky	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 sneaky	advmod
10	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 clothes	case
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 sneaky	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the old man	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is	past	man					with clothes; always, sneaky property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody knows yet, it's a proper mystery till later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	yet	yet	ADV	_	2 knows	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mystery	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mystery	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mystery	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mystery	det
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mystery	amod
9	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knows	obl
10	till	till	ADP	_	11 later	case
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 knows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody				yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	it	a proper mystery					tree rules

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