Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight ov…

Did the toad's linen go through the ring, or was it dodgy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: linen · What happens: go, be · To what, where: ring

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1912 «Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight over Parsley, a witch turns her into a toad, and the youngest prince wins the first two tasks with the toad's help» 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	5 linen	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 toad	det
3	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 linen	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 toad	case
5	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 ring	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dodgy	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 dodgy	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dodgy	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dodgy	nsubj
14	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the toad's linen			the ring			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through ring=Initial_Location
2	is	past	linen					dodgy property	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

It went through, but only after his brothers had tried and failed a dozen times over

The tree, 16 words

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tried	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 tried	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	11 tried	advmod
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 tried	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brothers	nmod:poss
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tried	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tried	aux
11	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 went	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 failed	cc
13	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dozen	det
15	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 times	nummod
16	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 failed	obl:unmarked
17	over	over	ADV	_	13 failed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go through	past	It		through property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	past · perfect	his brothers			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	fail	past		time	over property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, it got stuck halfway, then the toad had a go and it went through

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	5 stuck	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 had	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 toad	det
10	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 go	det
13	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
17	through	through	ADV	_	16 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	it			stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	past	the toad	a go	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Patient
3	go through	past	toad			through property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It got stuck, mate, real talk

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mate	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stuck	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 talk	punct
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 talk	amod
8	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	It	stuck mate and real talk					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mate=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It went through, no bother

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bother	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 bother	det
6	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go through	past	It	no bother				through property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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