Test 4 · ★ · Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse…

how'd she get to the big town, bro?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: get · To what, where: big town

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 991 «Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse bursts in and tells of her jail escape» 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	4 get	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 town	amod
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 town	vocative
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	she	the big town					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus

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

she hid in a goods train, then rode the railway and walked back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 train	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 train	det
5	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 train	compound
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rode	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 rode	advmod
9	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hid	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 railway	det
11	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rode	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 walked	cc
13	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hid	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hide	past	she		a goods train		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in train=Location
2	ride	past	she not said here	the railway		then	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent railway=Theme
3	walk back	past	she not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

hid in a goods train, rode the railway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 train	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 train	det
4	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 train	compound
5	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hid	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rode	punct
7	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 hid	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 railway	det
9	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rode	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past				a goods train			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in train=Location
2	ride	past		the railway					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent railway=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

walked, then took a cart ride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 walked	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ride	det
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ride	compound
7	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past		a cart ride			then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Theme

Option 4

she ran all the way on foot, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 way	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 foot	case
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 foot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	she	all way		foot and bro			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme on foot=Trajectory

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