Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

be so for real, what did the thieves do when the door dropped?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, do, drop · To what, where: thieves

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» 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	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 real	cop
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 real	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 real	case
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thieves	det
9	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dropped	nsubj:pass
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dropped	aux
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 dropped	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dropped	nsubj
14	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 did	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		real property	tree rules
2	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drop	present · passive · do-support		the thieves		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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

bolted out of the forest in fright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	5 forest	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 forest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bolted	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 fright	case
7	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bolted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	participle				the forest		in fright	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out forest=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

bolted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	participle							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

scampered away into the dark woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scampered	scamper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 scampered	advmod
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 woods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
5	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 woods	compound
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 scampered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scamper away	participle				the dark woods		away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination

Option 4

fled off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 fled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee off	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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