Test 4 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…

Lowkey, what got the Prince caught the second time?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey, Prince · What happens: get, catch

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1934 «Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fails to steal the golden horse and is caught» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 caught	nsubj
7	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Lowkey						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	catch	past	the Prince				time		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 guards waking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guards	det
2	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 waking	nsubj
3	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	gerund	the guards						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the horse kicking the stable door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	kicking	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 horse	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
5	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 door	amod
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kicking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	gerund	the horse not said here	the stable door					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 3

the wolf sneezing in the corridor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sneezing	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 wolf	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 corridor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 corridor	det
6	corridor	corridor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sneezing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze	gerund	the wolf not said here			the corridor			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the horse swishing its tail on the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	swishing	swish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 horse	acl
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swishing	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swishing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swish	gerund	the horse not said here	horse's tail		the wall			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme

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