Test 10 · ★ · Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the…

Yo, why did the boy on the burning ship stay put?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, stay, put · To what, where: boy, burning ship

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 359 «Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the king's gold, and a boy waits on a burning ship» 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	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stay	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 ship	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ship	det
9	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ship	compound
10	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
11	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 stay	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	you not said here	the boy	the burning ship	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
2	stay	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
3	put	participle	you not said here			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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

His mum told him to wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wait	mark
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	His mum		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	His mum not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His dad said so, so he stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stayed	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 stayed	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stayed	nsubj
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	His dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	stay	past	dad						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

His dad said so, so he stayed put on the deck until the end

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 put	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 put	nsubj
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 put	aux:pass
9	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 deck	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 deck	det
12	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
13	until	until	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	His dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	put	past · passive		dad		the deck	until the end		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on deck=Destination

Option 4

His dad said so, and he obeyed him even though the ship was burning all around

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 obeyed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 obeyed	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 obeyed	nsubj
8	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 obeyed	obj
10	even	even	ADV	_	15 burning	advmod
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 burning	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ship	det
13	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 burning	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 burning	aux
15	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 obeyed	advcl
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 around	advmod
17	around	around	ADV	_	15 burning	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	His dad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	obey	past	dad	him = he		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	burn	past · progressive	the ship		around property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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