Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the…

Mate, the big sis chucked the little one in the river, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: chuck, innit · To what, where: little one, river

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1949 «English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the youngest princess and the harp tells the truth» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chucked	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sis	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sis	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sis	amod
5	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
6	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chucked	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chucked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chucked	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chucked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past	Mate and the big sis	the little one		the river			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent one=Theme in river=Destination
2	innit	infinitive	Mate and the big sis not said here						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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she dunked her proper in the mill-stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dunked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dunked	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dunked	nsubj
4	dunked	dunk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 proper	nmod:poss
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dunked	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 stream	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stream	det
9	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stream	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 mill	punct
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dunked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dunk	past	she	her proper		the mill stream			vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent proper=Theme in stream=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she shoved her in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shoved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shoved	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shoved	nsubj
4	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shoved	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove	past	she	her = she		the river			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme in river=Destination

Option 3

Nah, she only dropped her in the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dropped	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 dropped	advmod
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dropped	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pond	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pond	det
9	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	she	her = she		the pond			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in pond=Destination

Option 4

Nah, she didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	she						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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