Test 9 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…

what did the servants do to the youth, lol?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: servants · What happens: do

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 youth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 youth	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 did	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the servants					to the youth	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

they beat him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 beat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat up	present	they	him = he					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

shoved him out and gave him some hits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 shoved	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 shoved	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gave	cc
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 shoved	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 hits	det
8	hits	hit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove out	past		him = he					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	give	past		some hits	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hit=Theme

Option 3

they kicked him out and hit him hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicked	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 kicked	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hit	cc
6	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kicked	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hit	obj
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick out	past	they	him = he					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	hit	past	they not said here	him = he				hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 4

they kicked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	they	him = he					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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