Test 5 · ★ · Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways a…

so the straw made a bridge, that's lit, but did it stay up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: straw · What happens: make, lit, stay up · To what, where: bridge, that

This is test 5 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 straw	det
3	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lit	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 lit	nsubj:pass
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lit	aux:pass
10	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stay	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 stay	cc
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stay	aux
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stay	nsubj
15	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 stay	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past	the straw	a bridge	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bridge=Product
2	lit	present · passive		that	tree rules
3	stay up	past · do-support	straw		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Yeah, it stayed up the whole time across the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stayed	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl:unmarked
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay up	past	it			the water	time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it burned and fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 burned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burned	nsubj
4	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fell	cc
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 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	fall	past							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, it sank in the stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sank	nsubj
4	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 stream	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stream	det
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	it			the stream			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, it stayed right up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod

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

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