Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar…

did the salmon really swim under the arches?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, swim · To what, where: salmon, arches

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 249 «English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar dreams of London Bridge and finds a treasure at home» 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 salmon	det
3	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 swim	advmod
5	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 arches	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 arches	det
8	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swim	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the salmon					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Eventuality
2	swim	present				the arches			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under arch=Trajectory

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

Nah, the story just made it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	the story	it					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

Option 2

Yeah, salmon swam under the arches all the time, and people caught them from the bridge

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 salmon	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 arches	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 arches	det
7	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swam	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 caught	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 caught	cc
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 caught	nsubj
14	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 caught	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 bridge	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bridge	det
18	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	salmon			the arches	time		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under arch=Trajectory
2	catch	past	people	arches = arch		the bridge			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from bridge=Source

Option 3

Nah, it's only written that way in the story, but nobody has ever seen a fish in the Thames like that

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 written	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 written	nsubj:pass
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 written	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 written	advmod
6	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 written	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 story	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 seen	cc
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 seen	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 seen	advmod
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 written	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fish	det
19	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seen	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 Thames	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Thames	det
22	Thames	Thames	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 fish	nmod
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 that	case
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present · passive		it					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient way=Topic
2	see	present · perfect	nobody	a fish		the Thames	ever	like that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it says so in the story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 story	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	it			the story			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in story=Manner

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