Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded…

Wait, why did the kettle stop right by Blacky's house?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, kettle · What happens: wait, stop · To what, where: house

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1887 «Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded in the kettle» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stop	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 stop	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stop	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kettle	det
6	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stop	nsubj
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	conj
8	right	right	ADV	_	12 house	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 house	case
10	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 house	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Blacky	case
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stop	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	past · do-support	the kettle	Blacky's house					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality house=Eventuality

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

It hit the wall because the lid came off the kettle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wall	det
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obj
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lid	det
7	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hit	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 kettle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kettle	det
11	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	It	the wall					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme
2	come off	past	the lid	the kettle					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The fox was waiting inside the brick house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waiting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waiting	aux
4	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	compound
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	the fox			the brick house			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside house=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Blacky was inside it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	Blacky			it			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside it=Location

Option 4

The ground was flat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ground	det
2	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flat	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flat	cop
4	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ground					flat property	tree rules

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