Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Metal Pig, part 109: the boy v…

Wait, so he got on the pig and it just ran?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he, pig · What happens: wait, get, run

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 898 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Metal Pig, part 109: the boy visits the Florence churches, then is shoved around by his mother and finds a kind home» 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 got	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 pig	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pig	det
8	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ran	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ran	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 ran	advmod
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	he	on the pig	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on pig=Source
3	run	past	pig		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, it needs a grown-up on its back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 needs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 needs	nsubj
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 back	det
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 back	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 grown	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 back	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 back	nmod:poss
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	it	its grown back					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot back=Theme
2	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Yeah, it only runs with a kid on its back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 runs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 runs	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 runs	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 runs	advmod
5	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 kid	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kid	det
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 runs	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 back	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 back	nmod:poss
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	it			kid's back		with a kid	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory

Option 3

Nah, it stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	it						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Yeah, it runs when a kid sits on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 runs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 runs	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sits	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kid	det
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sits	nsubj
8	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 runs	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	it						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	present	a kid			it			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location

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