Test 1 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs…

Bruv, did the stream actually try to drown the prince, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv, stream · What happens: do, try, drown · To what, where: stream, prince

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 664 «Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs catch a hairy thief, and a prince gets three magic apples» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stream	det
5	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 try	advmod
7	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stream	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 drown	mark
9	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drown	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nah	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 nah	cc
14	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bruv	the stream		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Eventuality
2	try	present	the stream not said here		actually property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	drown not said to happen	to-infinitive	the stream not said here	the prince		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient

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 hugged him gently

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 hugged	nsubj
2	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hugged	obj
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	2 hugged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past	It	him = he				gently property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, it ran dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ran	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	it					dry property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It was just a puddle

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	5 puddle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 puddle	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 puddle	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 puddle	det
5	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a puddle					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it swelled up and nearly did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swelled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swelled	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swelled	nsubj
4	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 swelled	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 did	cc
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	8 did	advmod
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swelled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swell up	past	it						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	do	past						nearly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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