Test 3 · ★ · Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna si…

ngl, what did the crowd do to her carriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crowd · What happens: do

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1017 «Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna sing at the opera, then sets out north over the mountains» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crowd	det
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 carriage	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 carriage	nmod:poss
10	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the crowd					to crowd's carriage; ngl vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Unhitched the horses and pulled the whole carriage through the square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unhitched	unhitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pulled	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horses	det
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Unhitched	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pulled	cc
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 carriage	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 carriage	amod
8	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	obj
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 square	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 square	det
11	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unhitch	participle		the horses					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	pull	past		the whole carriage		the square			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme

Option 2

Pulled it with long ropes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pulled	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 ropes	case
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ropes	amod
5	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past		it				with long ropes	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Pulled it themselves with ropes, cheering wildly, no horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pulled	obj
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Pulled	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 ropes	case
5	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pulled	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cheering	punct
7	cheering	cheer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Pulled	advcl
8	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	7 cheering	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 horses	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 horses	det
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past		it				with ropes; no horses obl	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent it=Theme themselves=Result
2	cheer	gerund						wildly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Pulled it themselves, no horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pulled	obj
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Pulled	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 horses	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 horses	det
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past		it				no horses obl	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent it=Theme themselves=Result

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