Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring: a baron tries…

How'd she find the ring again, was it in the fish's belly?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, ring · What happens: find, be · To what, where: ring, belly

This is test 8 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 find	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 find	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 belly	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 belly	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 belly	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 belly	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fish	det
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 belly	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 fish	case
15	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	she	the ring			again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic
2	is	past	ring			the fish's belly			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

Nah, she found it on the sandy shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	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 found	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 shore	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shore	det
8	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shore	amod
9	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	she	it		the sandy shore			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, right inside it, she cleaned it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 it	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 it	punct
3	right	right	ADV	_	5 it	advmod
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cleaned	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cleaned	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cleaned	nsubj
8	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cleaned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	past	she	it		it			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was hidden in the fisherman's hut under a pile of old nets and cloth

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 hidden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hidden	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hidden	aux:pass
5	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 hut	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fisherman	det
8	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hut	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 fisherman	case
10	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hidden	obl
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 pile	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pile	det
13	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hut	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 nets	case
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nets	amod
16	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pile	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cloth	cc
18	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hut	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive		it		the fisherman's hut under a pile of old nets and cloth			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in hut=Location

Option 4

Yeah, right inside it, and she cleaned it when the cook told her to

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 it	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 it	punct
3	right	right	ADV	_	5 it	advmod
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cleaned	nsubj:outer
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cleaned	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cleaned	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cleaned	nsubj
9	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cleaned	obj
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 told	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cook	det
13	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cleaned	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	14 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	past	it	it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	the cook		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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