Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and…

how did the boat end up, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boat · What happens: be, end up

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 863 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and Babette near their wedding, then their boat drifts away» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 end	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 how	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boat	det
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	nsubj
5	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 end	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	5 end	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 real	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 real	case
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 end	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						how property	tree rules
2	end up	present	the boat						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

It broke loose and floated off into the middle of the lake, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loose	loose	ADV	_	2 broke	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 floated	cc
5	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 broke	conj
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 floated	compound:prt
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floated	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 lake	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lake	det
12	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 honestly	punct
14	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 broke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	It					honestly, loose property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	float off	past				the middle of the lake			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into middle=Destination

Option 2

It sank down to the bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 sank	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink down	past	It					to the bottom; down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It broke loose and floated off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loose	loose	ADV	_	2 broke	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 floated	cc
5	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 broke	conj
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 floated	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	It					loose property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	float off	participle							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It drifted back to shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drifted	nsubj
2	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 drifted	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 shore	case
5	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drifted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift back	past	It			shore			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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