Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

how did tom end up in the pudding, did he fall or get chucked?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tom · What happens: end up, fall, get, chuck · To what, where: pudding

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 end	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
3	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nsubj
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 end	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pudding	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pudding	det
8	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fall	punct
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fall	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fall	nsubj
12	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 end	parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fall	conj
15	chucked	chuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 get	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	end up	past · do-support	tom	in the pudding result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in pudding=Result
2	fall	past · do-support	tom		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	infinitive	tom not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	chuck	participle	tom not said here		vn throw-17.1-1 «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

he tripped on the step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tripped	nsubj
2	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 step	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 step	det
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	past	he					on the step	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on step=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he was chucked in by the cook from the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chucked	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chucked	aux:pass
3	chucked	chuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	3 chucked	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 cook	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chucked	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 kitchen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kitchen	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chucked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck in	past · passive	the cook	he		the kitchen			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from kitchen=Initial_Location

Option 3

he slipped in the batter and went under

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slipped	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 batter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 batter	det
5	batter	batter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipped	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slipped	conj
8	under	under	ADP	_	7 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	he					in the batter	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in batter=Attribute
2	go	past	he not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he slipped in the batter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slipped	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 batter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 batter	det
5	batter	batter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	he					in the batter	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in batter=Attribute

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