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Test 8 · ★ · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

How did Little Thumb get the King to like him, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little Thumb · What happens: do, get, like · To what, where: King

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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

advmodamodnsubjccompdetobjmarkadvclobjpunctdiscoursepunctrootHowADVdidVERBLittleADJThumbPROPNgetVERBtheDETKingPROPNtoPARTlikeVERBhimPRON,PUNCTyeahINTJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HowhowADVPronType=Int2 didadvmod
2diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3LittlelittleADJDegree=Pos4 Thumbamod
4ThumbThumbPROPNNumber=Sing5 getnsubj
5getgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 didccomp
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Kingdet
7KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing5 getobj
8totoPART_9 likemark
9likelikeVERBVerbForm=Inf5 getadvcl
10himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 likeobj
11,,PUNCT_2 didpunct
12yeahyeahINTJ_2 diddiscourse
13??PUNCT_2 didpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopasttree rules
2getpresentLittle Thumbthe Kingvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus
3liketo-infinitiveLittle Thumb not said hereKingvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

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

By running news to the army

markobjcasedetoblrootBySCONJrunningVERBnewsNOUNtoADPtheDETarmyNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BybySCONJ_2 runningmark
2runningrunVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
3newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing2 runningobj
4totoADP_6 armycase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 armydet
6armyarmyNOUNNumber=Sing2 runningobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1rungerundnewsthe armyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent news=Theme to army=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

By running news to the army across the great and dangerous land

markobjcasedetoblcasedetamodccconjoblrootBySCONJrunningVERBnewsNOUNtoADPtheDETarmyNOUNacrossADPtheDETgreatADJandCCONJdangerousADJlandNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BybySCONJ_2 runningmark
2runningrunVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
3newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing2 runningobj
4totoADP_6 armycase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 armydet
6armyarmyNOUNNumber=Sing2 runningobl
7acrossacrossADP_12 landcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 landdet
9greatgreatADJDegree=Pos12 landamod
10andandCCONJ_11 dangerouscc
11dangerousdangerousADJDegree=Pos9 greatconj
12landlandNOUNNumber=Sing2 runningobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1rungerundnewsthe great landto the armyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent news=Theme to army=Initial_Location across land=Trajectory

Option 3

By running news to the army and back to the court every day

markobjcasedetoblccconjcasedetobldetobl:unmarkedrootBySCONJrunningVERBnewsNOUNtoADPtheDETarmyNOUNandCCONJbackADVtoADPtheDETcourtNOUNeveryDETdayNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BybySCONJ_2 runningmark
2runningrunVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
3newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing2 runningobj
4totoADP_6 armycase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 armydet
6armyarmyNOUNNumber=Sing2 runningobl
7andandCCONJ_8 backcc
8backbackADV_6 armyconj
9totoADP_11 courtcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 courtdet
11courtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing8 backobl
12everyeveryDETPronType=Tot13 daydet
13daydayNOUNNumber=Sing2 runningobl:unmarked
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1rungerundnewsthe armydayvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent news=Theme to army=Trajectory

Option 4

By fighting the enemy king

markdetcompoundobjrootBySCONJfightingVERBtheDETenemyNOUNkingNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BybySCONJ_2 fightingmark
2fightingfightVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 kingdet
4enemyenemyNOUNNumber=Sing5 kingcompound
5kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing2 fightingobj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fightgerundthe enemy kingvn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent

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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