Test 2 · ★ · Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win the…

bruv the gnat just flew in and hid under a leaf to spy??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: fly in, hide, spy · To what, where: leaf

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 735 «Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win their war, and a frog bargains with a princess» 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gnat	det
3	gnat	gnat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bruv	conj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hid	cc
8	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flew	conj
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 leaf	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 leaf	det
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hid	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 spy	mark
13	spy	spy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hid	advcl
14	??	??	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	fly in	past	bruv and the gnat		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide	past	bruv and the gnat not said here	a leaf	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under leaf=Location
3	spy	to-infinitive	bruv and the gnat not said here		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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

nah, she hid under a rock and told nobody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 rock	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rock	det
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hid	conj
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	she			a rock			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under rock=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here		nobody				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient

Option 2

yeah, she hid and then told the fox everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hid	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	she						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here	everything	the fox		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient everything=Topic

Option 3

nah, she hid and spied for ages then told the hornet everything she had seen in the wood

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spied	cc
6	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hid	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ages	case
8	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spied	obl
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 told	advmod
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hid	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 everything	det
12	hornet	hornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 everything	compound
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 told	obj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 everything	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 wood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wood	det
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hide	past	she				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spy	past	she not said here			for ages	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here	everything		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient
4	see	past · perfect	she		the wood		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she hid and then told the wren everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hid	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 everything	det
9	wren	wren	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 everything	compound
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	she	everything					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here				then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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