Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, t…

Did the dogs actually chuck the judges up in the air?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dogs · What happens: do, chuck up · To what, where: judges, air

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1003 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three dogs and the soldier's 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dogs	det
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chuck	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 chuck	advmod
5	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 judges	det
7	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chuck	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 chuck	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 air	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chuck	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chuck up	present	the dogs	the judges		the air		actually property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent judge=Theme in air=Destination

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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the dogs tossed them so high they never came back down, very harsh

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tossed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tossed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dogs	det
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tossed	nsubj
5	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tossed	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 high	advmod
8	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 tossed	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tossed	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	13 down	advmod
13	down	down	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 harsh	punct
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 harsh	advmod
16	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tossed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	the dogs	them = they				high property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	not come back	past	dogs = dog					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, they were tossed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tossed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tossed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tossed	aux:pass
5	tossed	toss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past · passive		they					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they got tossed and smashed, dead harsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tossed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tossed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tossed	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tossed	aux:pass
5	tossed	toss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smashed	cc
7	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tossed	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 harsh	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 harsh	amod
10	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tossed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past · passive		they					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	smash	participle							vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nah, they were just pushed a bit, not harmed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 pushed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pushed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pushed	aux:pass
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 pushed	advmod
6	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pushed	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 harmed	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 harmed	advmod
11	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pushed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past · passive		they				a bit obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not harm	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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