Test 8 · ★ · Ehstnische Marchen, The Finest Liar in the World, part 4:…

his bee gets eaten by wolves, rip

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolves · What happens: eat · To what, where: bee

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1753 «Ehstnische Marchen, The Finest Liar in the World, part 4: Elsa is shot down and wins a prince, then a boy's lying contest begins» 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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bee	nmod:poss
2	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	nsubj:pass
3	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux:pass
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 wolves	case
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eaten	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rip	punct
8	rip	rip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wolves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · passive	wolves and rip	his bee					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it just sits there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sits	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sits	advmod
5	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sits	advmod

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

Option 2

yeah, and then the wolves get stuck, ankle-deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stuck	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stuck	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stuck	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolves	det
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stuck	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stuck	ccomp
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deep	punct
10	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 deep	obl:unmarked
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 ankle	punct
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stuck	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

yeah, and then milk is spilled everywhere, knee-deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 spilled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spilled	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 spilled	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 spilled	advmod
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spilled	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spilled	aux:pass
7	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 spilled	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deep	punct
10	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 deep	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 knee	punct
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spilled	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	present · passive		milk			then	everywhere property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, and then honey is everywhere, ankle-deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	11 deep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 deep	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 deep	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 everywhere	advmod
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 everywhere	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 everywhere	cop
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 deep	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 everywhere	punct
9	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deep	obl:unmarked
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ankle	punct
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	honey				then	everywhere property	tree rules

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