Test 5 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, part 1: Manstin fin…

yo what's the deal with the grasshopper's legs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1275 «Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, part 1: Manstin finds his eyes again, then seven friends set out to make war and the first warriors drop away» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 deal	discourse
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 deal	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deal	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 deal	det
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 legs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grasshopper	det
8	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 legs	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 grasshopper	case
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 deal	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the deal				with the grasshopper's legs	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

they got stuck and he pulled them off and ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pulled	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pulled	nsubj
6	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pulled	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 pulled	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	they		stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	pull off	past	he	them = they		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	run away	past	they not said here		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

they got stuck in mud and he yanked them off hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 mud	case
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 yanked	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 yanked	nsubj
8	yanked	yank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 yanked	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	8 yanked	compound:prt
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 yanked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	they					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	yank off	past	he	them = they				hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they got stuck and he pulled them off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pulled	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pulled	nsubj
6	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pulled	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 pulled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	they					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	pull off	past	he	them = they					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality

Option 4

they stuck and he yanked them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stuck	nsubj
2	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 yanked	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 yanked	nsubj
5	yanked	yank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stuck	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 yanked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past	they						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	yank	past	he	them = they					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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