Test 12 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre…

did the Ogre even check the boys properly before he cut?, like, did he?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ogre · What happens: check, cut, do · To what, where: boys

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1089 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre kills his own daughters by mistake and the boys flee» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 check	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Ogre	det
3	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 check	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 check	advmod
5	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boys	det
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 check	obj
8	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 check	advmod
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 cut	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cut	nsubj
11	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 check	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 check	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
14	like	like	INTJ	_	16 did	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 check	parataxis
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	check	past · do-support	the Ogre	the boys	properly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
2	cut	infinitive	Ogre			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	do	past	Ogre			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he felt crowns and bonnets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 felt	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bonnets	cc
7	bonnets	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crowns	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he	crowns and bonnets					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme

Option 2

yeah, he checked their heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 checked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 checked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 checked	nsubj
4	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heads	nmod:poss
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 checked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	past	he	their heads					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 3

nah, he didn't check, he just swung blindly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 check	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 check	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 check	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 check	advmod
6	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swung	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 swung	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 swung	advmod
10	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 check	ccomp
11	blindly	blindly	ADV	_	10 swung	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not check	past · do-support	he						tree rules
2	swing	past	he					blindly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he just looked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 looked	advmod
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	he						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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