Test 5 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big…

real talk, the chief basically set up a trap for the hunters, fr?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chief · What happens: set up · To what, where: trap

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1222 «Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers, part 2: the bear chief's servant lures the hunters into the mountain» 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chief	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chief	det
5	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
6	basically	basically	ADV	_	7 set	advmod
7	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chief	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 set	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 trap	det
10	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 hunters	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hunters	det
13	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trap	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fr	punct
15	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hunters	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set up	participle	the chief not said here	a trap				for the hunters and fr; basically property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent trap=Patient for hunter=Beneficiary

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

Fr, he sent his servant out to the fork to lure them in and then ambush them

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 servant	nmod:poss
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
7	out	out	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 fork	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fork	det
10	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lure	mark
12	lure	lure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lure	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	12 lure	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ambush	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 ambush	advmod
17	ambush	ambush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lure	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ambush	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send out	past	he	Fr	the fork		out property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent servant=Theme to fork=Destination
2	lure in	to-infinitive	he not said here	them = they				vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	ambush	infinitive	he not said here	them = they		then		vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he simply let the hunters walk past

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
4	simply	simply	ADV	_	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunters	det
7	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 walk	nsubj
8	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 let	xcomp
9	past	past	ADV	_	8 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	he					simply property	tree rules
2	walk	present	the hunters					past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Fr, he sent his servant to scare them off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 servant	nmod:poss
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 scare	mark
8	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scare	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	8 scare	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	Fr					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
2	scare off	to-infinitive	he not said here	them = they					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fr, he sent his servant to lure them in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 servant	nmod:poss
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lure	mark
8	lure	lure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lure	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	8 lure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	Fr					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
2	lure	to-infinitive	he not said here	them = they					vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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