Test 3 · ★ · Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win the…

so the fox's tail was like the signal, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tail · What happens: be, innit

This is test 3 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	9 signal	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tail	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 fox	case
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 signal	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 signal	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 signal	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 signal	det
9	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 signal	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 signal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fox's tail					like the signal	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, when his tail went up the birds had to fly off to the nest

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 went	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 went	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fly	mark
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 fly	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 nest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nest	det
16	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	go up	past	his tail		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	have	past	the birds		tree rules
3	fly off	to-infinitive	the birds not said here	the nest	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to nest=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, up meant charge and down meant run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 meant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
3	up	up	ADV	_	4 meant	advmod
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meant	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 meant	cc
7	down	down	ADV	_	8 meant	advmod
8	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 meant	conj
9	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meant	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past		charge					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Topic
2	mean	past		run				down property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Topic

Option 3

yeah, up was for rest and down for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 rest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rest	punct
3	up	up	ADV	_	6 rest	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rest	cop
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 rest	case
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 down	cc
8	down	down	ADV	_	6 rest	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 food	case
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						for rest; for food	tree rules

Option 4

yeah, up meant charge, down meant run, and wagging meant to hide in the grass

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 meant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
3	up	up	ADV	_	4 meant	advmod
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meant	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 run	punct
7	down	down	ADV	_	8 meant	advmod
8	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 run	amod
9	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 charge	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 meant	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 meant	cc
12	wagging	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 meant	aux:pass
13	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 meant	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hide	mark
15	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 meant	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 grass	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grass	det
18	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	past	charge and meant run			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Topic
2	mean	participle			down property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	mean	gerund · passive				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: clause=Topic
4	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive		the grass		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location

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