Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Wildrose, part 16: the baby vanishes, an eagl…

bruh, the old lady nearly ate the stairs running down for treasure, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lady, stairs · What happens: eat, run down · To what, where: stairs

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 676 «Fairy Tales, Wildrose, part 16: the baby vanishes, an eagle carries her off, the prince searches» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	nsubj
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 ate	advmod
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stairs	det
9	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ate	obj
10	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stairs	acl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 running	compound:prt
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 treasure	case
13	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 running	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	7 ate	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the old lady	the stairs				nearly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=Patient
2	run down	gerund	the stairs not said here					for treasure	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for treasure=Beneficiary

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

Yeah, she grabbed the gold and ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grabbed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grabbed	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	she	the gold					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
2	run off	past	she not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, she just waited for the sun to rise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 waited	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waited	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 waited	advmod
5	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waited	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 rise	mark
10	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 waited	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	she					for the sun	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rise	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was so hyped she almost tumbled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 hyped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hyped	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hyped	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hyped	aux:pass
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hyped	advmod
6	hyped	hype	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tumbled	advcl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tumbled	nsubj
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 tumbled	advmod
9	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hype	past · passive		she					tree rules
2	tumble	past	she					almost property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the stairs were fine, she just took her time walking down and told the baby to wait

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stairs	det
4	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fine	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 took	advmod
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	parataxis
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 time	nmod:poss
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 time	acl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 walking	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 baby	det
18	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 wait	mark
20	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stairs			fine property	tree rules
2	take	past	she		time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	walk down	gerund	her time not said here			down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here	the baby			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent baby=Recipient clause=Topic
5	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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