Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring: a baron tries…

Mate, did the baron know who the girl was before he chucked her in the river?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, baron · What happens: do, know, be · To what, where: river

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1971 «English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring: a baron tries to drown the girl he has fated for his son, and a ring saves her» 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	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baron	det
5	baron	baron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 chucked	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chucked	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 chucked	cop
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 chucked	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 chucked	nsubj
13	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	ccomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 chucked	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chucked	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	the baron			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	is	past		the river	chuck property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he read it in the Book of Fate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 Book	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Book	det
8	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 read	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Fate	case
10	Fate	Fate	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Book	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	he	it		the Book of Fate			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 obviously	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yeah, but he forgot her name later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 forgot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 forgot	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 forgot	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgot	nsubj
5	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgot	obj
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 forgot	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	he	her name				late property	tree rules
2	name		her = she						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Nah, he only guessed it from her face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 guessed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 guessed	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 guessed	advmod
5	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 guessed	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 face	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guessed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	he	it		her face			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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