Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant

What did the robber do when he saw the gleam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robber · What happens: do, see · To what, where: gleam

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 685 «Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant» 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 robber	det
4	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gleam	det
10	gleam	gleam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the robber		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	robber	the gleam	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gleam=Stimulus

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

Ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Ran	advmod

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

Option 2

Fell on the floor, begging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fell	fell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 floor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fell	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 begging	punct
6	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Fell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	gerund							vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Dropped to his knees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 knees	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 knees	nmod:poss
4	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	participle				his knees			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to knee=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Got down on his knees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Got	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 knees	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knees	nmod:poss
5	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get down	past				his knees		down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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