Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins…

So what did the sack actually do, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sack · What happens: do · To what, where: sack

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1100 «Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins back his sack and ram, and his rich brother buys them» 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sack	det
5	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sack	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sack	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the sack and bruv					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Eventuality
2	do	present	the sack and bruv not said here					actually property	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 · ← Mova's choice

gave them meat and drink every time he shook it, innit.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gave	obj
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drink	cc
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meat	conj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shook	nsubj
9	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 time	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shook	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 gave	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	give	past		them = they	time	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient meat=Theme
2	shake	past	he	drink		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	innit	infinitive				tree rules

Option 2

gave them bread and ale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gave	obj
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ale	cc
5	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bread	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		them = they					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bread=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

gave them meat and drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gave	obj
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drink	cc
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		them = they					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient meat=Theme

Option 4

gave them meat and drink right out of the sack, loads of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gave	obj
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drink	cc
5	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 gave	conj
6	right	right	ADV	_	10 sack	advmod
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 sack	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sack	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sack	det
10	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 loads	punct
12	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sack	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		them = they					tree rules
2	drink	infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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