Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

So what did the queen do to the stone, like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stone · What happens: do · To what, where: queen

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stone	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stone	aux
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 stone	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stone	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	9 stone	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 stone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the stone	the queen					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality

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

tugged it steady on its ledge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tugged	tug	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 tugged	obj
3	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 tugged	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ledge	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ledge	nmod:poss
6	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tugged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tug	past		it		its ledge		steady property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

pushed it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pushed	push	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 pushed	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 pushed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push back	past		it					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

tugged it steady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tugged	tug	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 tugged	obj
3	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 tugged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tug	past		it				steady property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

tugged it steady and then swept the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tugged	tug	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 tugged	obj
3	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 tugged	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 swept	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 swept	advmod
6	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 tugged	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tug	past		it				steady property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	sweep	past		the floor			then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory

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