Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle…

what did the judge do with the law?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judge · What happens: do

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1249 «Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle his hills and serves three masters» 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 judge	det
4	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 law	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 law	det
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the judge					with the law	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

he wrote it all down clearly

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 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	obj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 wrote	advmod
6	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	2 wrote	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	he	it				clearly, down property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

enforced it with some care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	enforced	enforce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 enforced	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 care	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 care	det
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 enforced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enforce	participle		it				with some care	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

upheld it with might and main

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	upheld	uphold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 upheld	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 might	case
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 upheld	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 main	cc
6	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 might	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	uphold	past		it					tree rules

Option 4

he bent it to his will

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 bent	nsubj
2	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bent	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 will	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 will	nmod:poss
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 bent	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past	he	it					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent it=Material

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