Test 8 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…

How did Tom get up to the window, then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: get up

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 get	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 get	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past · do-support	Tom				then	to the window result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to window=Result

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

by swinging on the tower's rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 swinging	mark
2	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 rope	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tower	det
5	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rope	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 tower	case
7	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swinging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	gerund				the tower's rope			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on rope=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

up the old drainpipe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	up	up	ADP	_	4 drainpipe	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drainpipe	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drainpipe	amod
4	drainpipe	drainpipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

by ladder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 ladder	case
2	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

up the rosebush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	up	up	ADP	_	3 rosebush	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rosebush	det
3	rosebush	rosebush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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