Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle…
did the castle go down with them on board?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: castle · What happens: go down · To what, where: board
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 castle | det |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 board | case |
| 9 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past · do-support | the castle | board | with them = they; down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on board=Location |
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
Nah, it sailed away quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 sailed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 sailed | advmod |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 sailed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail away | past | it | away, quickly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, it flew off at full speed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 flew | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 speed | case |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 speed | amod |
| 8 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | past | it | full speed | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |
Option 3
Nah, it flew off at full speed without them on board
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 flew | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 speed | case |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 speed | amod |
| 8 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 board | case |
| 12 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | past | it | full speed | without them = they; on board | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |
Option 4
Nah, it flew off at full speed and left the frog behind in the sea
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 flew | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 speed | case |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 speed | amod |
| 8 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 left | cc |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 frog | det |
| 12 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 10 left | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | past | it | full speed | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | the frog | the sea | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent frog=Theme in sea=Location |
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