Test 3 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Star Gazer

how did the sisters plan to get rid of the garden boy?

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

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1506 «Red Fairy Book, The Star Gazer» 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plan	nsubj
5	plan	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 plan	xcomp
8	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 boy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	compound
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rid	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	plan	present	the sisters		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the sisters not said here	rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

they were gonna give him a magic drink at supper

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	4 give	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	4 give	dep
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drink	det
7	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drink	amod
8	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 supper	case
10	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	a magic drink	him = he	supper			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient drink=Theme at supper=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they were gonna give him a magic drink at supper and then drag him out

The tree, 15 words

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	4 give	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	4 give	dep
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drink	det
7	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drink	amod
8	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 supper	case
10	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drag	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 drag	advmod
13	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drag	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	13 drag	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	a magic drink	him = he	supper			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient drink=Theme at supper=Asset
2	drag out	infinitive	they not said here	him = he			then		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

they were gonna make him leave the palace quick

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	4 make	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	gonna	gonna	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
9	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	they	him = he				quick property	tree rules
2	leave	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

they were gonna slip him a magic drink at supper and say he'd run off with the gold

The tree, 19 words

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	4 slip	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slip	aux
3	gonna	gonna	PART	_	4 slip	mark
4	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slip	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drink	det
7	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drink	amod
8	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slip	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 supper	case
10	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drink	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slip	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 run	nsubj
14	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 run	aux
15	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	ccomp
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 run	compound:prt
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 gold	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gold	det
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	slip	past	they	a magic drink	him = he		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination drink=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	they not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	run off	would	he			with the gold	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with gold=Material

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