Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches…

bruv, what's the swan's trick, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: be · To what, where: trick

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1902 «Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches a crowd and the Princess laughs at last» 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trick	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trick	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 trick	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 trick	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swan	det
6	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trick	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 swan	case
8	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trick	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	8 trick	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bruv	the swan's trick					tree rules

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

anyone who touches it gets stuck and the whole crowd falls over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 gets	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 touches	nsubj
3	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 anyone	acl:relcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touches	obj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gets	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 falls	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crowd	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crowd	amod
10	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 falls	nsubj
11	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gets	conj
12	over	over	ADV	_	11 falls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch	present		it		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	get	present	anyone		stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	fall over	present	the whole crowd		over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

anyone who touches it gets stuck to it and can't let go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 stuck	nsubj:pass
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 touches	nsubj
3	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 anyone	acl:relcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touches	obj
5	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stuck	aux:pass
6	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stuck	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 let	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 let	advmod
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stuck	conj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	touch	present	it		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	stick	present · passive	anyone	it	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to it=Co-Patient
3	not let	can			tree rules
4	go	infinitive			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

anyone who touches it gets stuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 gets	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 touches	nsubj
3	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 anyone	acl:relcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touches	obj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	present		it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	get	present	anyone					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

whoever grabs it gets glued

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 grabs	nsubj
2	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 glued	nsubj:pass
4	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 glued	aux:pass
5	glued	glue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grabs	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	present	whoever						tree rules
2	glue	present · passive		it					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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