Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…

Did the horses help the giant or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horses · What happens: help · To what, where: giant

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 horses	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horses	det
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 help	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 giant	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	the horses	the giant					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Beneficiary

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 carried the giant back to the castle on their backs and helped him rest

The tree, 15 words

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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 back	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 back	amod
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 castle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 castle	det
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 backs	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 backs	nmod:poss
11	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 helped	cc
13	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 helped	obj
15	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 helped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	They	the giant back	their backs	to the castle	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme to castle=Destination
2	help	past	They not said here	him = he			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	rest	infinitive	him = he not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They kicked the dog

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 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	They	the dog					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent dog=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They bit and kicked him

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 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kicked	cc
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bit	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	They						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	kick	past	They not said here	him = he					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

They bit him and kicked him until he fell down into the mud

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 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bit	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kicked	cc
5	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bit	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kicked	obj
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 fell	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kicked	advcl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 mud	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mud	det
13	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bite	past	They	him = he		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	kick	past	They not said here	him = he		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	fall down	past	he		into the mud result; down property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into mud=Result

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