Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219…

Mad, what happened to the blokes who guessed wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blokes · What happens: happen, guess

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mad	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 blokes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blokes	det
7	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happened	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 guessed	nsubj
9	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blokes	acl:relcl
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 guessed	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						to the blokes	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	guess	past	the blokes					wrong property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

They got hanged or beheaded in the square before the palace gates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hanged	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hanged	aux:pass
3	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 beheaded	cc
5	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hanged	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 square	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 square	det
8	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beheaded	obl
9	before	before	ADP	_	12 gates	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gates	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gates	compound
12	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hanged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hange	past · passive		They			before the palace gates		tree rules
2	behead	participle				the square			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They were locked in the tower and forgotten by the whole court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 locked	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 locked	aux:pass
3	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tower	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tower	det
6	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 locked	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 forgotten	cc
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 locked	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 court	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 court	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 court	amod
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forgotten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past · passive		They		the tower			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	forget	participle						by the whole court	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They got hanged or beheaded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hanged	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hanged	aux:pass
3	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 beheaded	cc
5	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hanged	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hange	past · passive		They					tree rules
2	behead	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They were sent to the mines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mines	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mines	det
6	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		They		the mines			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mine=Destination

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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