Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Youngest Prince and the Apples, part 23:…

Did Jubal drop him in it when the search party came?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jubal, search party · What happens: drop, come · To what, where: him, it

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 256 «Fairy Tales, The Youngest Prince and the Apples, part 23: the bear's forest, the watch in the tree and the handkerchief test» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drop	aux
2	Jubal	Jubal	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 drop	nsubj
3	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drop	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drop	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 party	det
9	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 party	compound
10	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drop	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 drop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · do-support	Jubal	him = he		it			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in it=Destination
2	come	past	the search party						vn escape-51.1-1 «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

Yeah, he did, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he					mate vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, he hid, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he	mate					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he pointed up the tree, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 pointed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pointed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pointed	nsubj
4	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 pointed	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pointed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point up	past	he	the tree and mate					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

Option 4

Nah, he told them he was alone, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 alone	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 alone	cop
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 told	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		them = they			mate vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is	past	he					alone property	tree rules

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