Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring: a baron tries…

Hang on, which bit comes next, the magpie or the baron?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, bit · What happens: hang on, come · To what, where: magpie

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 comes	punct
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hang	advcl
7	next	next	ADV	_	6 comes	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 magpie	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 magpie	det
10	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 baron	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 baron	det
13	baron	baron	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 magpie	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	which bit	the magpie or the baron				next property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 fish bit, with the girl cleaning it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bit	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	compound
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 girl	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 girl	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	appos
8	cleaning	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 girl	acl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cleaning	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 cleaning	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean up	gerund	the girl not said here	bit					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

The baron bit, where he throws the ring away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bit	det
2	baron	baron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	compound
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 throws	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 throws	punct
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 throws	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 throws	nsubj
7	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 throws	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 throws	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	present	the baron bit	the ring				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The magpie bit, with the birds building nests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bit	det
2	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	compound
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nests	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 nests	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nests	nsubj
8	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nests	compound
9	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bit	nmod

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

Option 4

The magpie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 magpie	det
2	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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