Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Lud…

Bruv, what was up with the horse once they hit the sea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv, they · What happens: be, hit · To what, where: sea

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1899 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Ludovine from the goblins, sleeps through his chances, and is carried off to the Low Countries.» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 horse	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 horse	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 horse	cop
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 was	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
9	once	once	SCONJ	_	11 hit	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hit	nsubj
11	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 horse	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hit	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Bruv					with the horse	tree rules
2	hit	past	they	the sea					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice

it swam for a bit then sank down into the water

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 swam	nsubj
2	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 sank	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sank	obl:unmarked
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sank	advmod
7	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swam	advcl
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 sank	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	it						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sink down	past		a bit		the water	then	down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

it swam back to the land

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 swam	nsubj
2	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 swam	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 land	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swam	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim back	past	it			the land			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to land=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it was knackered and sank down

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	3 knackered	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knackered	aux:pass
3	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sank	cc
5	sank	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knackered	conj
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sank	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knacker	past · passive		it					tree rules
2	sink down	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

it was totally knackered so it just sank down and drowned

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	4 knackered	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knackered	aux:pass
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 knackered	advmod
4	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 sank	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sank	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 sank	advmod
8	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knackered	advcl
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 sank	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drowned	cc
11	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 knackered	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	knacker	past · passive		it	totally property	tree rules
2	sink down	past	it		down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	drown	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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