Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely o…

yo did the prince actually climb that rock or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo · What happens: do, climb · To what, where: prince, rock

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 298 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely old man and a gift» 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 climb	advmod
6	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 rock	mark
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climb	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 rock	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	yo	the prince					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	climb	present	yo not said here	rock				actually property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rock=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

Nah, he gave up at the bottom and went home to the apes and their trees

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 apes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 apes	det
14	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 trees	cc
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 trees	nmod:poss
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 apes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he			the bottom			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	he not said here			the apes and apes's trees		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ape=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he climbed the rock all alone, slipping near the top but finishing before dusk

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 climbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 alone	advmod
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 climbed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 slipping	punct
10	slipping	slip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 climbed	advcl
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 top	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slipping	obl
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 finishing	cc
15	finishing	finishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 top	conj
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 dusk	case
17	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slipping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	he	the rock				alone property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rock=Theme
2	slip	gerund	he not said here			the top but finishing	dusk		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he climbed it before the sun went down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 climbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj
4	climbed	climb	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 climbed	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	advcl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	he	it					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
2	go down	past	the sun					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Nah, he slipped and fell in the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 slipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slipped	nsubj
4	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fell	cc
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slipped	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 lake	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	fall	past	he not said here			the lake			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in lake=Location

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