Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle…

wait, why did the box go in the sea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, box · What happens: wait, go · To what, where: sea

This is test 4 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · do-support	the box			the sea			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sea=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 · ✓ the right answer

They were arguing and fighting over it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arguing	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arguing	aux
3	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fighting	cc
5	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 arguing	conj
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fighting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past · progressive	They						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fight	gerund	They not said here					over it	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over it=Theme

Option 2

They were arguing and fighting over it while the ship rocked about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arguing	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arguing	aux
3	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fighting	cc
5	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 arguing	conj
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fighting	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 rocked	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ship	det
10	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rocked	nsubj
11	rocked	rock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fighting	advcl
12	about	about	ADV	_	11 rocked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past · progressive	They		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fight	gerund	They not said here	over it	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over it=Theme
3	rock	past	the ship	about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They were shouting at each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shouting	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shouting	aux
3	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 shouting	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · progressive	They			each			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It was the mouse's fault because he was arguing and fighting over it on the stairs

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fault	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fault	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fault	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mouse	case
6	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 arguing	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 arguing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 arguing	aux
10	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fault	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fighting	cc
12	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 arguing	conj
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fighting	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 stairs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stairs	det
17	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fighting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the mouse's fault		tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	past · progressive	mouse			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fight	gerund	mouse not said here		on the stairs; over fault	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over it=Theme

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