Test 1 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the…

Mate, what did the Swallow actually do at the end, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, Swallow · What happens: do · To what, where: end

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Swallow	det
6	Swallow	Swallow	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 like	nsubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Swallow	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	4 did	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the Swallow not said here				at the end	actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

He died at the statue's feet

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 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 feet	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statue	det
5	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feet	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 statue	case
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	He			the statue's feet			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

He snuffed it dead by the statue's feet

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 snuffed	nsubj
2	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snuffed	obj
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 snuffed	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 feet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 statue	det
7	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feet	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 statue	case
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 snuffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snuff	past	He	it				by the statue's feet; dead property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He snuffed it by the Prince

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 snuffed	nsubj
2	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snuffed	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Prince	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 snuffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snuff	past	He	it				by the Prince	tree rules

Option 4

He sang a song to the Prince

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 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Prince	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	He	a song	the Prince				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to prince=Recipient

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