Test 7 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine…

when the fly fell in, what happened to it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fly · What happens: fall in, happen · To what, where: fly

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2045 «A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine nearly kills Theseus before his father recognizes him» 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fly	det
3	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 happened	nsubj
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happened	nsubj
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 happened	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in	past	the fly						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	past			fly				vn occur-48.3-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

it flew off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	it						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

it floated and died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 floated	nsubj
2	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 died	cc
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 floated	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	past	it						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	past							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

it sank into the wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 wine	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wine	det
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sank	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it dropped in dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 dead	case
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	it			dead			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in dead=Trajectory

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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