Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the far…

Skint or not, how'd the farmers end up in the river?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmers · What happens: end up · To what, where: river

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 not	cc
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Skint	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 end	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 end	advmod
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 end	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farmers	det
8	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 end	nsubj
9	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Skint	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 end	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Skint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	would	the farmers					in the river result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in river=Result

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

Toueno tipped them into water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toueno	Toueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tipped	nsubj
2	tipped	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tipped	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip	past	Toueno	them = they				into water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into water=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Toueno chucked them off a rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toueno	Toueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	nsubj
2	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chucked	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 chucked	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck off	past	Toueno	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination rock=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The horses pushed them in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horses	det
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pushed	nsubj
3	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pushed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	3 pushed	obl

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

Option 4

They slipped off the bank

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 slipped	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 bank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bank	det
5	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipped	obl

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

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