Test 11 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…

Gutted, how did he get those ducks home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: gut, get · To what, where: ducks

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Gutted	advcl
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 ducks	det
8	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obj
9	home	home	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle							vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get	past · do-support	he	that ducks				home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duck=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

He drove them home

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 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 drove	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	He	them = they				home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

He drove the whole flock of ducks home in a cart

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 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flock	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flock	amod
5	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drove	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 ducks	case
7	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flock	nmod
8	home	home	ADV	_	2 drove	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cart	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cart	det
11	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	He	the whole flock of ducks		a cart		home property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flock=Theme in cart=Destination

Option 3

He led them home

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 led	nsubj
2	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 led	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 led	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	He	them = they				home property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

He carried them home

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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 carried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	He	them = they				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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