Test 5 · ★ · Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60: the bailiff chases A…

wait, why did the bailiff dress up like a Stalo?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, bailiff · What happens: wait, dress up

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1194 «Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60: the bailiff chases Andras, who outwits him with reindeer magic and a daring leap» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dress	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 dress	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dress	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bailiff	det
6	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dress	nsubj
7	dress	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 dress	compound:prt
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 Stalo	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Stalo	det
11	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dress	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dress up	past · do-support	the bailiff					like a Stalo	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

To trick Andras

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 trick	mark
2	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Andras	Andras	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	to-infinitive		Andras					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent andras=Patient

Option 2

To sneak into the Stalo's home and steal the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sneak	mark
2	sneak	sneak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	7 home	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Stalo	det
5	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 home	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Stalo	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sneak	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 steal	cc
9	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sneak	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gold	det
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak	to-infinitive				the Stalo's home			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into home=Destination
2	steal	present		the gold					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme

Option 3

To scare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	to-infinitive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

To impress the crowd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 impress	mark
2	impress	impress	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crowd	det
4	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 impress	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impress	to-infinitive		the crowd					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crowd=Experiencer

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