Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg3282), The Prince and the Crocodile: the he…

So the little guys had tiny bows and spears, wicked?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little guys · What happens: have · To what, where: tiny bows

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1242 «Fairy Tales (pg3282), The Prince and the Crocodile: the herb saves the prince from the crocodile» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guys	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guys	amod
4	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bows	amod
7	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spears	cc
9	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bows	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wicked	punct
11	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bows	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the little guys	tiny bows and spears					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Patient

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

Yeah, they were small but brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 small	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 small	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 small	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 brave	cc
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 small	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					small property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they were just pretend, and the fox made up all the bows and spears himself

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 pretend	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pretend	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretend	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 pretend	advmod
6	pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fox	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fox	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pretend	conj
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 fox	acl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 made	compound:prt
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 bows	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bows	det
15	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 spears	cc
17	spears	spear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pretend	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 spears	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	they		pretend property	tree rules
2	make up	participle	the fox not said here	all bows		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bow=Pivot
3	spear	present	they not said here	fox		vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, tiny but they could sting the bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tiny	punct
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 sting	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sting	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sting	aux
7	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tiny	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bear	det
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sting	obj

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

Option 4

Nah, they were actually very big and scary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 big	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 big	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 scary	cc
9	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 big	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					actually, big property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here						tree rules

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