Test 9 · ★ · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…

how did the soldiers treat the farms, bruh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldiers · What happens: treat · To what, where: farms

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» 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	5 treat	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 treat	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldiers	det
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 treat	nsubj
5	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farms	det
7	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 treat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 treat	punct
9	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 treat	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 treat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	past · do-support	the soldiers	the farms					vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent farm=Recipient

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 paid the farmers fairly

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	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 farmers	det
4	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paid	obj
5	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	2 paid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	they	the farmers				fairly property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Asset

Option 2

they burned every hut and trampled all the crops in the fields

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	2 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hut	det
4	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burned	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 trampled	cc
6	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 burned	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 crops	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crops	det
9	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burned	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 fields	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fields	det
12	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	they	every hut		the fields			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hut=Theme
2	trample	participle	they not said here						tree rules

Option 3

they fed the local villagers

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	2 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 villagers	det
4	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 villagers	amod
5	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	they	the local villagers					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent villager=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

burned huts and trampled crops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 burned	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 crops	cc
4	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 crops	amod
5	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 huts	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past		huts and trampled crops					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hut=Theme
2	trample	participle							tree rules

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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