Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring: a baron tries…

Did the baron really throw his ring in the sea, like a mad one?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baron · What happens: do, throw · To what, where: baron, ring, sea

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 baron	det
3	baron	baron	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 throw	advmod
5	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 baron	acl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ring	nmod:poss
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 throw	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 throw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 one	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 throw	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the baron					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baron=Eventuality
2	throw	infinitive	the baron not said here	his ring		the sea		like a mad one	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ring=Theme in sea=Destination

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

Yeah, to make her swear she'd never see him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		her = she	tree rules
2	swear	infinitive	her = she not said here		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not see	would	she	him = he	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he threw his ring in the sea to show his anger at the whole family and the priest

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ring	nmod:poss
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 show	mark
11	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 threw	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 anger	nmod:poss
13	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 family	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 family	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 family	amod
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 priest	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 priest	det
20	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 family	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	throw	past	he	his ring	the sea	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ring=Theme in sea=Destination
2	show	to-infinitive	he not said here	his anger	the whole family and the priest	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anger=Recipient
3	anger		his = he			nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Nah, he just dropped it by accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dropped	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 dropped	advmod
5	dropped	drop	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 dropped	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 accident	case
8	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	it				by accident	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by accident=Destination

Option 4

Yeah, to make her swear she'd never see him again, and then he regretted it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	obj
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 see	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 regretted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 regretted	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 regretted	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 regretted	nsubj
17	regretted	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 regretted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		her = she		tree rules
2	swear	infinitive	her = she not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not see	would	she	him = he	again	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	regret	past	he	it	then	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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