Test 3 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

Bruv, why didn't the bird just fly off when he got hurt?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: not fly off, hurt · To what, where: bird

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1868 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy overhears, the bird is cut, the King is saved» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fly	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 fly	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 fly	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 fly	advmod
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 fly	compound:prt
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 hurt	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hurt	nsubj
13	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hurt	aux:pass
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fly	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly off	past · do-support	the bird					Bruv vocative	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hurt	past · passive		bird					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: 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

He was too weak to fly off that day

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	4 weak	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weak	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 weak	advmod
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fly	mark
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 weak	advcl
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 fly	compound:prt
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fly	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					weak property	tree rules
2	fly off	to-infinitive	He not said here				day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He thought the Queen had caught him already

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 caught	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 caught	aux
6	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caught	obj
8	already	already	ADV	_	6 caught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	catch	past · perfect	the Queen	him = he					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

He thought the Princess had grassed him up to the Queen, so he stayed in the tree

The tree, 17 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grassed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grassed	aux
6	grassed	grass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grassed	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 grassed	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Queen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grassed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stayed	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 stayed	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stayed	nsubj
15	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 tree	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	grass up	past · perfect	the Princess	him = he		to the Queen	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination
3	stay	past	he		the tree		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He thought the Princess had grassed him up

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grassed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grassed	aux
6	grassed	grass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grassed	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 grassed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	grass up	past · perfect	the Princess		him = he				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination

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