Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a…

So the flower worked on the door, or was it a fluke?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flower · What happens: work, be · To what, where: fluke

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 728 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a maiden into a nightingale, and her shepherd lover wins her back» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 worked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flower	det
3	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fluke	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 fluke	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fluke	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fluke	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fluke	det
13	fluke	fluke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	vocative
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	the flower					on the door	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on door=Theme
2	is a	past	flower	a fluke					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

It broke

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 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	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	break	past	It						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It worked, the door sprang open

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 worked	nsubj
2	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sprang	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprang	nsubj
6	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 worked	conj
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sprang	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	It						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spring	past	the door					open property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It melted, the wall fell in

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 melted	nsubj
2	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 melted	conj
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	It						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fall in	past	the wall						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, it failed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 failed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 failed	nsubj
4	failed	fail	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	fail	past	it						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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