Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, part 1: the fox eats Br…

Did the old dame get her gold back, or is she still trying?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: get back, try · To what, where: old dame

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1886 «Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, part 1: the fox eats Browny and Whitey, then fails at Blacky's brick house» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dame	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dame	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dame	amod
4	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gold	nmod:poss
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 trying	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 trying	cc
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 trying	aux
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 trying	nsubj
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 trying	advmod
14	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 get	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	present		the old dame					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus
2	try	present · progressive	she				still		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

She got it back, but it slipped away again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 got	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slipped	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 slipped	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slipped	nsubj
8	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 slipped	advmod
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 slipped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past	She	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	slip away	past	it				again	away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She is still trying, the gold keeps slipping out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 trying	advmod
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 keeps	csubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trying	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gold	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trying	obj
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	slipping	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keeps	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 slipping	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	She	the gold	still	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Eventuality
2	keep	present	trying			tree rules
3	slip out	gerund	trying not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

She stopped trying, the gold is gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stopped	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	cop
8	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stopped	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	past	She		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	try	gerund	She not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	the gold	gone property	tree rules

Option 4

She is still trying, the gold keeps slipping out and the Fairy laughs at her

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 trying	advmod
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 keeps	csubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trying	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gold	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeps	nsubj
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	slipping	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keeps	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 slipping	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 laughs	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fairy	det
13	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 laughs	nsubj
14	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 keeps	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laughs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	She	still		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	keep	present	the gold			tree rules
3	slip out	gerund	the gold not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	laugh	present	the Fairy		at her = she	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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