Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shel…

Innit, what was he holding onto when the stag ran off?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit, stag · What happens: hold, run off

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1926 «Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shelters with a grumpy old man, a stag carries him underground, and he frees a maiden from a glass coffin» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 holding	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 holding	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 holding	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 holding	nsubj
6	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	onto	onto	ADP	_	11 ran	mark
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 ran	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stag	det
10	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 holding	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 ran	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 holding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · progressive	Innit					Innit vocative	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	run off	past	the stag						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

the bull's long tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bull	det
2	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tail	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bull	case
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tail	amod
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the stag's great horns as it ran through the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stag	det
2	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horns	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 stag	case
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horns	amod
5	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ran	obl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 ran	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	stag	the stag's great horns		the wood			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory

Option 3

the stag's great horns and a branch of the old tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stag	det
2	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horns	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 stag	case
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horns	amod
5	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 branch	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 branch	det
8	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horns	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 branch	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the stag's great horns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stag	det
2	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horns	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 stag	case
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horns	amod
5	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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