Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daug…

Gutted for the Prince, how did he end up face first in the mud?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: gut, end up · To what, where: face, mud

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1903 «Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daughter hides in rags, works as a shepherdess, and wins a Prince with a lost ring.» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 Prince	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Gutted	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 end	punct
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 end	advmod
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 end	aux
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 end	nsubj
9	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Gutted	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 end	compound:prt
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	obj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 end	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 mud	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mud	det
15	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle						for the Prince	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	end up	past · do-support	he	face		the mud		first property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient face=Result

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

slipped on wet leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 leaves	case
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leaves	amod
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	participle				wet leaves			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

he got knocked off his horse by a runaway stag in the wood

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	3 knocked	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knocked	aux:pass
3	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 knocked	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knocked	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 stag	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stag	det
9	runaway	runaway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stag	amod
10	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knocked	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock off	past · passive	a runaway stag	he		the wood			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

his horse bolted and dumped him in a muddy pond nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horse	nmod:poss
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bolted	nsubj
3	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dumped	cc
5	dumped	dump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bolted	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dumped	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 pond	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pond	det
9	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pond	amod
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dumped	obl
11	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	10 pond	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	past	his horse						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dump	past	his horse not said here	horse		a muddy pond			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in pond=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

tripped on a tree root

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tripped	trip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 root	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 root	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 root	compound
5	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	participle				a tree root			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on root=Trajectory

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