Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

Did the boy snail reach the top of the stalk, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy snail · What happens: reach · To what, where: top

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 846 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reach	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snail	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snail	compound
4	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	nsubj
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 stalk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stalk	det
10	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 top	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	5 reach	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past · do-support	the boy snail	the top of the stalk					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he stopped at the bottom because the stalk was too tall and slippery

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 bottom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottom	det
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 tall	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stalk	det
10	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tall	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tall	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 tall	advmod
13	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stopped	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 slippery	cc
15	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he	the bottom		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location
2	is	past	the stalk		tall property	tree rules
3	be		the stalk not said here			tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, but it took him two days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 took	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	it		him = he		day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, but it took him three days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 took	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	it		him = he		day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

Option 4

Nah, he gave up halfway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
6	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he					halfway property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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