Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Shepherd Prince, part 14: the prince beats…

Wait, what happens to the dragon when it hits the ground?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dragon · What happens: wait, happen, hit · To what, where: ground

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 674 «Fairy Book, The Shepherd Prince, part 14: the prince beats the dragon, and the princess's kiss ends the fight» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happens	nsubj
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 dragon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	obl
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 hits	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hits	nsubj
10	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happens	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hits	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	present			to the dragon	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hit	present	dragon	the ground		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice

It lands in the reeds and sort of fizzles

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 lands	nsubj
2	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 reeds	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reeds	det
5	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lands	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sort	cc
7	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reeds	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 fizzles	case
9	fizzles	fizzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sort	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	present	It			the reeds and sort of fizzles			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in reed=Destination
2	sort			fizzles					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

It smashes into a thousand pieces, mate, and every piece starts moving across the meadow at once

The tree, 17 words

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 smashes	nsubj
2	smashes	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 pieces	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pieces	det
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 pieces	nummod
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smashes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pieces	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 starts	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 starts	cc
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 piece	det
12	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 starts	nsubj
13	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 smashes	conj
14	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 starts	xcomp
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 meadow	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 meadow	det
17	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 moving	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 moving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	smash	present	It		into a thousand pieces and mate result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result
2	start	present	every piece			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	move	gerund	every piece not said here	the meadow		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme across meadow=Source at once=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It smashes into a thousand pieces, mate

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 smashes	nsubj
2	smashes	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 pieces	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thousand	det
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 pieces	nummod
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smashes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pieces	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	present	It					into thousand pieces and mate result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result

Option 4

It crashes down and fizzles out, mate

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 crashes	nsubj
2	crashes	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 crashes	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fizzles	cc
5	fizzles	fizzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 crashes	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 fizzles	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fizzles	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash down	present	It						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fizzle out	present						mate vocative	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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