Test 5 · ★ · Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's…

Yo, did she give the sparrows corn or throw her shoes at them?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: she, sparrows · What happens: give, corn, throw · To what, where: shoes

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1152 «Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's casket burns the cottage down» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sparrows	det
7	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 corn	nsubj
8	corn	corn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	parataxis
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 throw	cc
10	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 corn	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shoes	nmod:poss
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 throw	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 throw	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	she			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	corn	present	the sparrows			tree rules
3	throw	infinitive	the sparrows not said here	her shoes	at sparrows = sparrow	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme at they=Destination

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

she scattered grain for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scattered	nsubj
2	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scattered	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	past	she	grain				for them = they	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grain=Theme

Option 2

she shooed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shooed	nsubj
2	shooed	shoo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shooed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoo	past	she	them = they					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

she threw her shoes at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shoes	nmod:poss
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	she	her shoes				at shoes = shoe	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme at they=Destination

Option 4

she fed them corn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	obj
4	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	she	them = they					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient corn=Theme

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