Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Fr…

What did the maids plan to do to Tom?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maids · What happens: do, plan · To what, where: Tom

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 124 «Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Frog becomes a Prince, Henry's bands break, and Tom Thumb ends up in a cow» 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 maids	det
4	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plan	nsubj
5	plan	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 plan	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Tom	case
9	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	plan	present	the maids		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the maids not said here	Tom	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 · ← Mova's choice

Throw him in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the river			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in river=Destination

Option 2

Leave him outside in the cold snow until the morning came round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 Leave	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 snow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 snow	amod
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	advcl
12	round	round	ADV	_	11 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the cold snow		outside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in snow=Location
2	come round	past	the morning					round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Turn him into a pudding and serve him at the royal banquet tonight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turn	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 pudding	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pudding	det
5	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 serve	cc
7	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Turn	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 serve	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 banquet	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 banquet	det
11	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 banquet	amod
12	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 serve	obl
13	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	him = he		a pudding	tonight		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into pudding=Trajectory
2	serve	present	you not said here	him = he		the royal banquet			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Drown him or harm him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Drown	obj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 harm	cc
4	harm	harm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Drown	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 harm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	harm	infinitive	you not said here	him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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