Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wake…

Proper, but what was the big tree doing, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big tree · What happens: be, do, innit · To what, where: big tree

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 692 «Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wakes the dead and Death loses his prize, then a stone-cutter wishes for more» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 tree	cc
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 tree	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tree	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Proper	conj
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 tree	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the big tree	tree rules
2	do	gerund	the big tree not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	innit	infinitive			tree rules

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

Lying broken on the ground after a huge storm had struck the valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 struck	csubj:pass
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Lying	xcomp
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 storm	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 storm	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 storm	amod
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 struck	aux
11	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 valley	det
13	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 struck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lie	gerund			the ground	after a huge storm	tree rules
2	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	strike	past · perfect	Lying	the valley			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Torn up by its roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Torn	compound:prt
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 roots	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 roots	nmod:poss
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Torn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear up	participle						by its roots	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by root=Trajectory

Option 3

Torn up by its roots and thrown across the river by the storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Torn	compound:prt
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 roots	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 roots	nmod:poss
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Torn	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thrown	cc
7	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Torn	conj
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thrown	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 storm	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 storm	det
13	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear up	participle						by its roots	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by root=Trajectory
2	throw	participle				the river		by the storm	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by storm=Destination

Option 4

Struck by lightning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 lightning	case
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	participle						by lightning	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lightning=Location

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