Test 12 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch fall…

Who got the watch that the cat had, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: get, have · To what, where: watch

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1875 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch falls into the sea and the fairies choose a new Queen» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 watch	det
4	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 had	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		the watch					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer watch=Stimulus
2	have	past	the cat				then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 cat, after he lost it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lost	punct
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 lost	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the cat	it					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

Nobody, the fish swallowed it and the dog ate the box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 ate	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swallowed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swallowed	nsubj
5	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Nobody	acl:relcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swallowed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dog	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nobody	conj
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 box	det
12	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	the fish	it					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	eat	past	Nobody	the box					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient

Option 3

The Princess, if she could ever get it back from the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Princess	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 get	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	could	the Princess	it		the sea	ever		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from sea=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Princess, if she got it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Princess	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 got	advmod

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

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