Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house…

what did the crow do, bro, with the stones?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crow · What happens: do · To what, where: crow

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 397 «Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house is robbed while he reads other people's fortunes» 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 crow	det
4	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 crow	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crow	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stones	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 stones	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stones	det
11	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the crow and bro				with the stones	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Eventuality
2	do	present	the crow and bro not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

tossed them in the bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tossed	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 bowl	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bowl	det
5	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past		them = they		the bowl			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in bowl=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

dropped them one by one into the pitcher until the water rose high enough to drink

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 dropped	obj
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 dropped	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	nmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 pitcher	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pitcher	det
8	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 rose	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	nsubj
12	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 dropped	advcl
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rose	xcomp
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 rose	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 drink	mark
16	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 rose	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop	past		them = they	the pitcher		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme one=Destination
2	rise	past	the water			enough, high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	to-infinitive	the water not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he threw them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	past	he	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

dropped them in the pitcher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 dropped	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 pitcher	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pitcher	det
5	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past		them = they		the pitcher			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pitcher=Destination

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