Test 3 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, the Broken Pot and the Magic…

So the Magician's arms just fell off, one after another?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: arms · What happens: fall off

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1824 «Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, the Broken Pot and the Magic Fiddle: the Prince wins his parrot, Punchkin dies, and a greedy Brahman and a jealous sister-in-law are introduced» 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Magician	det
3	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 arms	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Magician	case
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fell	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 fell	advmod
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 fell	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fell	conj
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 another	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	the Magician's arms						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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, his arms stayed on but his legs got really weak and tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 arms	nmod:poss
4	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stayed	nsubj
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 stayed	advmod
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stayed	conj
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 weak	advmod
12	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 got	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tired	cc
14	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weak	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay on	past	his arms						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	his legs					weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Nah, he turned into a stone statue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 statue	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 statue	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 statue	compound
8	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	he			a stone statue			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into statue=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, every limb dropped off, dead mental

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dropped	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 limb	det
4	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	nsubj
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 dropped	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dropped	punct
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mental	amod
9	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dropped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop off	participle	every limb						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, his legs fell off first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 fell	compound:prt
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	his legs					first property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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