Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Bamboo Fiddle: the drowned girl be…

Lmao, what did the crane do to the fish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lmao · What happens: do · To what, where: crane

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1825 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Bamboo Fiddle: the drowned girl becomes a bamboo fiddle that cooks for a chief's son, then the Cruel Crane tricks the fish» 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	Lmao	Lmao	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lmao	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crane	det
6	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 fish	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Lmao	the crane					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crane=Eventuality
2	do	present	Lmao not said here					to the fish	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

He ate them all, one by one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	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 ate	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ate	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ate	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	them = they					tree rules

Option 2

He swallowed one at a time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swallowed	nsubj
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 swallowed	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	He	one			time		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 3

He ate them all, one by one, until the whole pond was empty

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	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 ate	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 them	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ate	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 empty	punct
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 empty	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pond	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pond	amod
13	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 empty	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 empty	cop
15	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ate	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	is	past	the whole pond					empty property	tree rules

Option 4

He caught them and flew away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	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 caught	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 flew	cc
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	He	them = they					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	fly away	past	He not said here					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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