Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son, part…

Oi, how did the horses get through that tiny door?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: do, get · To what, where: horses, tiny door

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1852 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son, part 36: the prince falls for a fairy's reflection, and the friends escape the robbers» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Oi	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horses	det
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 door	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 door	det
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 door	amod
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the horses					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
2	get	present	Oi			that tiny door			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through door=Destination

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

The charm made them thin, like cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 charm	det
2	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cloth	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 cloth	case
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the charm	them = they				like cloth; thin property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 2

The charm made them thin, like cloth, and they slid right through the tiny door

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 charm	det
2	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cloth	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 cloth	case
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slid	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slid	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slid	nsubj
12	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
13	right	right	ADV	_	12 slid	advmod
14	through	through	ADP	_	17 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 door	amod
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the charm	them = they				like cloth; thin property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
2	slide	past	they			the tiny door		right property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Trajectory

Option 3

He cut the rope, mate, and pulled

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 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rope	det
4	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rope	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pulled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pulled	cc
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cut	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	He	the rope and mate					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Product
2	pull	participle	He not said here						vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They climbed up the wall, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 climbed	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	They	the wall and mate					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme

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