Test 12 · ★ · Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the…
What did the sailors do when it got hot?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sailors, it · What happens: do, get
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sailors | det |
| 4 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 got | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 got | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | the sailors | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | past | it | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Jumped in a little boat and split before the fire got to them all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jumped | jump | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 boat | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boat | amod |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jumped | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 split | cc |
| 7 | split | split | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boat | conj |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 got | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Jumped | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | obj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 them | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | participle | a little boat and split | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boat=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | get | past | the fire | boat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
Option 2
Jumped ship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jumped | jump | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ship | amod |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Jumped in a little boat and split
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jumped | jump | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 boat | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boat | amod |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jumped | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 split | cc |
| 7 | split | split | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | participle | a little boat and split | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boat=Trajectory |
Option 4
Got into a boat and rowed away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 boat | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boat | det |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Got | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rowed | cc |
| 6 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Got | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 rowed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | participle | a boat | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination | |||||
| 2 | row away | past | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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