Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the far…

Gutted, what did the brothers do to the wives?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: gut, do

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1295 «Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the farmers and sends them to their deaths in the river, and a new tale, The Brown Bear of Norway, begins» 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	4 did	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wives	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wives	det
10	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	gut	participle			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	the brothers	to the wives	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 · ✓ the right answer

knocked them down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 knocked	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 knocked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	past		them = they					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

knocked them down and dragged them out of the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 knocked	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 knocked	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dragged	cc
5	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 knocked	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dragged	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 house	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	past		them = they					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	drag	past		them = they		the house			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out house=Initial_Location

Option 3

chased them off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 chased	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 chased	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	past		them = they					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

threw them outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obj
3	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 threw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		them = they				outside property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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