Test 1 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

Oi, did you see Grumedan get dragged up by his eyelashes?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, eyelashes · What happens: see, drag up · To what, where: Grumedan, Oi

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1882 «Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla: Melinette saves Potentilla from poison and traps Grumedan» 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	8 dragged	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Oi	acl:relcl
6	Grumedan	Grumedan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
7	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 dragged	aux:pass
8	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 dragged	compound:prt
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 eyelashes	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyelashes	nmod:poss
12	eyelashes	eyelash	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dragged	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dragged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	you	Grumedan					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grumedan=Stimulus
2	drag up	infinitive · passive	Grumedan's eyelashes	Oi					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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

Nah, he just got told off by the Fairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 told	advmod
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 told	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Fairy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fairy	det
10	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past · passive	the Fairy	he					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient

Option 2

Yeah, he was flailing about loads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 flailing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flailing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flailing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flailing	aux
5	flailing	flail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 loads	case
7	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flailing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flail	past · progressive	he					about loads	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about load=Location

Option 3

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Proper mental, innit, Melinette had him kicking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 mental	advmod
2	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mental	punct
4	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 mental	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
6	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mental	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	obj
9	kicking	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Melinette	him = he					tree rules
2	kick	gerund	him = he not said here						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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