Test 7 · ★ · Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Fr…

How did Tom get up the chimney, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: get up, innit · To what, where: chimney

This is test 7 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 get	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chimney	det
7	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past · do-support	Tom	the chimney					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chimney=Stimulus
2	innit	infinitive	Tom not said here						tree rules

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 rode up on the smoke of the fire

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 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 rode	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 smoke	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smoke	det
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smoke	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride up	past	He			the smoke of the fire			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	smoke		the fire						nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The steam from the dinner carried him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 steam	det
2	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 dinner	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dinner	det
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steam	nmod
6	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the steam from the dinner	him = he					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

He climbed onto the sooty bricks and then waved at the cook who was asleep below

The tree, 16 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 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	onto	onto	ADP	_	6 bricks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bricks	det
5	sooty	sooty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bricks	amod
6	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 climbed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 waved	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 waved	advmod
9	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 climbed	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 cook	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cook	det
12	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waved	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 asleep	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asleep	cop
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cook	acl:relcl
16	below	below	ADV	_	9 waved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	He	the sooty bricks			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto brick=Trajectory
2	wave	past	He not said here	the cook	then	below property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cook=Location
3	is	past	the cook			asleep property	tree rules

Option 4

A cook pulled him up with a string

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pulled	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 pulled	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 string	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 string	det
8	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	past	a cook	him = he				with a string	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result

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