Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little…

Wait, did they sail boats in a water-tub when they were little?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, they, boats · What happens: wait, sail, be · To what, where: boats, water tub

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 871 «Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little Claus tricks Great Claus into the river, and an old man begins a story from the teapot» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sail	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sail	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sail	nsubj
5	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
6	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sail	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 tub	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tub	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tub	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 water	punct
11	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sail	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 little	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 little	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 little	cop
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sail	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sail	past · do-support	they	boats	a water tub		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme boat=Trajectory
3	is	past	boats = boat			little property	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

Yeah, they made a raft from logs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 raft	det
6	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 logs	case
8	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	they	a raft		logs			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset raft=Product from log=Material

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they sailed a real ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	nsubj
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ship	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ship	amod
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sailed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	they	a real ship					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme ship=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he cut his boat out himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boat	nmod:poss
6	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut out	past	he	his boat				himself = he obl	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector boat=Eventuality

Option 4

Nah, they just floated leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 floated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 floated	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 floated	advmod
5	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 floated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	past	they	leaves					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Agent

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