Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), Prince Darling, part 66: a cursed pri…

How did the hunters catch him in the wood, though?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hunters · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: him, wood

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1479 «Fairy Tales (pg503), Prince Darling, part 66: a cursed prince becomes a monster and then a little dog» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 catch	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hunters	det
4	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catch	nsubj
5	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 catch	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 catch	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 catch	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 catch	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						how property	tree rules
2	catch	present	the hunters	him = he		the wood			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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

Dogs chased him down, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	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 chased	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 chased	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chased	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase down	past	Dogs	him = he				mate vocative	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He fell in a bear pit, mate

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 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 pit	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pit	det
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pit	compound
6	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	He			a bear pit and mate			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pit=Location

Option 3

Some hunters set a huge net across the path and he got tangled up in it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 hunters	det
2	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 net	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 net	amod
6	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obj
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 path	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tangled	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tangled	nsubj
12	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tangled	aux:pass
13	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 set	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 tangled	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tangled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	some hunters	a huge net		the path			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient net=Result
2	tangle up	past · passive		he		path			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The hunters followed his footprints to a big muddy pond and waited there all night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hunters	det
2	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 footprints	nmod:poss
5	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 followed	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 pond	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pond	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pond	amod
9	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pond	amod
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 followed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 waited	cc
12	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 followed	conj
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 waited	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waited	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the hunters	his footprints		a big muddy pond			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent footprint=Theme to pond=Trajectory
2	wait	past	the hunters not said here			there	night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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