Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

Did that big stone like, just fall off by itself?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big stone · What happens: do, fall off · To what, where: big stone

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 stone	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 fall	mark
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fall	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 fall	advmod
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stone	acl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 fall	compound:prt
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 itself	case
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 fall	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		that big stone					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Eventuality
2	fall off	infinitive	that big stone not said here					by stone	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it rolled into the abyss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	past	it			the abyss			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into abyss=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it slid down the slope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 slid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slid	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slid	nsubj
4	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 slid	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 slope	det
7	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide down	past	it	the slope					vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location slope=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, it rolled off the peak and crashed into the abyss below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rolled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rolled	nsubj
4	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 peak	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peak	det
7	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rolled	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 crashed	cc
9	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 abyss	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 abyss	det
12	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crashed	obl
13	below	below	ADV	_	12 abyss	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll off	past	it	the peak					vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location peak=Theme
2	crash	past						into the abyss result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into abyss=Result

Option 4

Yeah, it came off the peak and tumbled down the slope into the empty abyss

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 peak	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peak	det
7	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tumbled	cc
9	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 peak	acl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 tumbled	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 slope	det
12	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tumbled	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 abyss	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 abyss	det
15	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 abyss	amod
16	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come off	past	it	the peak		the empty abyss			tree rules
2	tumble down	participle	the peak not said here	the slope					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location slope=Theme

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