Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war,…

Did Prince Fadasse finish the Ice Mountain quest, or did he flop?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fadasse · What happens: finish, flop · To what, where: Mountain quest

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1892 «Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war, and Brandatimor defeated» 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	3 Fadasse	aux
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Fadasse	nmod:desc
3	Fadasse	Fadasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 finish	nsubj
4	finish	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 quest	det
6	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Mountain	compound
7	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 quest	compound
8	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finish	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flop	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 flop	cc
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flop	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flop	nsubj
13	flop	flop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 finish	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 finish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	present	Fadasse Prince	the Mountain quest					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector quest=Eventuality
2	flop	past · do-support	Fadasse						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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

He made it, he got back, mate

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	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 made	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	it				mate vocative	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
2	get back	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He nailed it at first then he flopped hard and died in the snow, innit

The tree, 15 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 nailed	nsubj
2	nailed	nail	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 nailed	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 nailed	obl
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 flopped	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flopped	nsubj
8	flopped	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nailed	advcl
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 flopped	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 died	cc
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nailed	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 snow	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 snow	det
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 died	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 snow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	nail	past	He	it			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	flop	past	he		then	hard property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die	past	He not said here			in the snow and innit	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in snow=Attribute

Option 3

He flopped, he died in the snow, and his mates never got back, mate

The tree, 14 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 flopped	nsubj
2	flopped	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flopped	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 snow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mates	nmod:poss
12	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 got	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 got	advmod
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flopped	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 got	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mate	punct
17	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flopped	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	flop	past	He	mate vocative	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die	past	he	in the snow	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in snow=Attribute
3	not get back	past	his mates		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He flopped, he died in the snow, mate

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 flopped	nsubj
2	flopped	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flopped	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 snow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flop	past	He						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die	past	he					in the snow and mate	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in snow=Attribute

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