Test 8 · ★ · Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest,…

Did the water thing work on her?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: thing work

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 892 «Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest, and at sunrise Helga turns back into a girl» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 work	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thing	compound
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	compound
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Did	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the thing work				on her = she	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

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

Nah, she just got soaking wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	soaking	soaking	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	she					soaking, wet property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Kinda, she dropped her arms and sat like a tame bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 dropped	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arms	nmod:poss
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dropped	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	conj
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 bird	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bird	det
11	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	she	her arms				kinda property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
2	sit	past	she not said here					like a tame bird	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, she laughed and drank it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drank	cc
6	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	she						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	past	she not said here	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Nah, she turned into a fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 fish	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she					into a fish result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fish=Result

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