Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost i…

Mate, why did the pig end up in the drink, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, pig · What happens: do, end up, innit · To what, where: drink

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 849 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost in the forest, the children meet a gypsy with wishing nuts» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Mate	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pig	det
6	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nsubj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 drink	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 drink	det
11	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 end	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	end up	present	the pig	in the drink result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in drink=Result
3	innit	infinitive	the pig not said here		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 · ✓ the right answer

the two men both grabbed it and dropped it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grabbed	nsubj
4	both	both	ADV	_	5 grabbed	advmod
5	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grabbed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dropped	cc
8	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grabbed	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	the two men	it				both property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	drop	past	the two men not said here	it					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

one man pushed it and it fell out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 man	nummod
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	nsubj
3	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pushed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pushed	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 fell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	one man	it					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fall out	past	it						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

they threw it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 threw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	past	they	it				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

they both grabbed it, then it slipped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grabbed	nsubj
2	both	both	ADV	_	3 grabbed	advmod
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grabbed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slipped	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 slipped	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slipped	nsubj
8	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grabbed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	they	it				both property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	slip	past	it				then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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