Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

Gutted, what happened to all her milk?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut, happen

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Gutted	conj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 milk	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 milk	det:predet
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 milk	nmod:poss
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle							vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	happen	past						to her milk	vn occur-48.3-1 «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

It splashed on her feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 splashed	nsubj
2	splashed	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 splashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splash	past	It			her feet			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It spilled all over the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spilled	nsubj
2	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	2 spilled	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spilled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	past	It			the ground		all property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ground=Location

Option 3

It all spilled out over the ground when the pail fell off her head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spilled	nsubj:pass
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 spilled	nsubj:pass
3	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 spilled	compound:prt
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spilled	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 fell	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pail	det
10	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spilled	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill out	participle · passive		It		the ground			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	fall off	past	the pail	pail's head					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient head=Extent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It spilled all over the ground and the dogs came to lick it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spilled	nsubj
2	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	2 spilled	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spilled	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dogs	det
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spilled	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lick	mark
12	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lick	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 lick	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spill	past	It		the ground	all property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ground=Location
2	come	past	the dogs				tree rules
3	lick up	to-infinitive	the dogs not said here	ground			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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