Test 3 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clums…

How did the farmer sort out their counting mess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: sort out, mess · To what, where: counting mess

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1156 «Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clumsy mistake, a lost-seeming weaver, and a son who gets rich with a magic stone» 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 sort	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sort	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sort	nsubj
5	sort	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 sort	compound:prt
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mess	nmod:poss
8	counting	counting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mess	compound
9	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sort	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sort	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	past · do-support	the farmer	farmer's counting mess					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mess=Theme
2	mess		farmer = farm						nom mess «state transitive»: poss=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

He made each of them stand in a line and whacked them with his stick while they counted out loud

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 stand	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 each	nmod
6	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 line	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 line	det
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 whacked	cc
11	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 whacked	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 stick	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 stick	nmod:poss
15	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whacked	obl
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 counted	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 counted	nsubj
18	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	advcl
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 counted	advmod
20	loud	loud	ADV	_	18 counted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	He				tree rules
2	stand	present	each		a line		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in line=Location
3	whack	past	He not said here	them = they		with his stick	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with stick=Instrument
4	count out	past	they			loud, out property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He whacked each of them with his stick while counting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whacked	nsubj
2	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 whacked	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 each	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 stick	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 stick	nmod:poss
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whacked	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 counting	mark
10	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 whacked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past	He	each				with his stick	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent each=Patient with stick=Instrument
2	count	gerund	He not said here						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

He sorted it by hitting each one, proper clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sorted	nsubj
2	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sorted	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 hitting	mark
5	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sorted	advcl
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hitting	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sorted	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clever	amod
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sorted	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	past	He	it					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	hit	gerund	He not said here	each one					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme

Option 4

He made them count out loud, cheeky sod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	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 made	obj
4	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 count	advmod
6	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 count	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sod	punct
8	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sod	amod
9	sod	sod	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	them = they				cheeky sod obl	tree rules
2	count out	infinitive	them = they not said here					loud, out property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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