Test 12 · ★ · Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways a…

dude, what happened to the straw in the stream, pls tell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: happen, tell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 730 «Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways almost die, and a bean ends up with a black seam» 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 straw	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 straw	det
7	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 stream	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stream	det
10	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 straw	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
12	pls	pls	INTJ	_	13 tell	discourse
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	dude					to the straw in the stream	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	dude not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

It stayed afloat fine

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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	afloat	afloat	ADV	_	2 stayed	advmod
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	It					afloat, fine property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It burned and sank

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 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sank	cc
4	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 burned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	It						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sink	past							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It burnt and 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 burnt	nsubj
2	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fell	cc
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 burnt	conj
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past	It						tree rules
2	fall in	past							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It floated

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 floated	nsubj
2	floated	float	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	float	past	It						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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