Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

yo so the magician got his head chopped off, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo, head · What happens: get, chop off

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» 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	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	4 magician	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 magician	det
4	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yo	nmod
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chopped	nsubj
8	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 chopped	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	yo so the magician						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	chop off	past	yo's head						vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

Nope, John did it with a knife.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 knife	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	John	it				with a knife	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the traveller did it with his sabre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 traveller	det
4	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 sabre	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sabre	nmod:poss
9	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the traveller	it				with traveller's sabre	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the traveller chopped it off with his sabre after the magician had been thrown into the sea

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chopped	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 traveller	det
4	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	nsubj
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chopped	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 chopped	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 sabre	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sabre	nmod:poss
10	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	obl
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 thrown	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 magician	det
13	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thrown	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thrown	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 thrown	aux:pass
16	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chopped	advcl
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past	the traveller	it				with traveller's sabre	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with sabre=Instrument
2	throw	past · perfect · passive		the magician				into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into sea=Result

Option 4

Yeah, he used a big axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 axe	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 axe	amod
7	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	a big axe					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Patient

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