Test 3 · ★ · Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest s…

did the youngest bro just ride the fox like a skateboard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, ride · To what, where: youngest bro, fox

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 725 «Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest son catches the bird, is caught, and must fetch a golden horse» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bro	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 bro	amod
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 ride	advmod
6	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fox	det
8	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 skateboard	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 skateboard	det
11	skateboard	skateboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the youngest bro					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bro=Eventuality
2	ride	present		the fox				like a skateboard	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it ran so fast their hair whistled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ran	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	so	so	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ran	advmod
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hair	nmod:poss
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obj
9	whistled	whistle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ran	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	it	their hair				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hair=Theme
2	whistle	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, he walked beside it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	he			it			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside it=Trajectory

Option 3

Yeah, it carried him all the way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obl:unmarked
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	it	him = he				all way obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Nah, it flew so high they fell off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flew	xcomp
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 fell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	it					high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall off	past	they						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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