Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brown Bear of Norway: the prince f…

what do the servants do to the poor footman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: servants · What happens: be, do

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1297 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brown Bear of Norway: the prince forgets his wife, and she wins him back» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 footman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 footman	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 footman	amod
9	footman	footman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	do	present	the servants					to the poor footman	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

they circle him and sing a rude song loudly

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 circle	nsubj
2	circle	circle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 circle	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sing	cc
5	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 circle	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 song	det
7	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 song	amod
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sing	obj
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	circle	present	they	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
2	sing speech: express	infinitive	they not said here	a rude song				loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they gather round and bang tongs and pans, proper rowdy

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 gather	nsubj
2	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADV	_	2 gather	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bang	cc
5	bang	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gather	conj
6	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bang	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pans	cc
8	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tongs	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rowdy	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rowdy	amod
11	rowdy	rowdy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gather	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	present	they	proper rowdy				round property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bang	present	they not said here	tongs and pans					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tong=Theme

Option 3

they yell at 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 yell	nsubj
2	yell	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 yell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	present	they					at him = he	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus

Option 4

they gather round and mock him with a loud song

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 gather	nsubj
2	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADV	_	2 gather	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 mock	cc
5	mock	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gather	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mock	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 song	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 song	det
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 song	amod
10	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mock	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	present	they					round property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mock	infinitive	they not said here	him = he				with a loud song	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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