Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the parents plan to los…

so did Little Thumb get the dad's stool, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Little Thumb · What happens: do, get · To what, where: stool

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1467 «Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the parents plan to lose their sons in the forest, and Little Thumb leaves a trail of white pebbles» 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	_	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Thumb	amod
4	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dad	det
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stool	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 dad	case
9	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get	present	Little Thumb	the dad's stool					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stool=Stimulus

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

He hid under the stool to listen in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 stool	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stool	det
5	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 listen	mark
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hid	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 listen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He			the stool			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under stool=Location
2	listen in	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He threw it into the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	He	it				into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into river=Result

Option 3

He sat on it all night thinking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl:unmarked
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	He			it	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location
2	think speech: other	gerund	He not said here						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He gave the stool to his brothers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stool	det
4	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 brothers	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brothers	nmod:poss
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He	the stool	his brothers				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent stool=Theme to brother=Recipient

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