Test 6 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Star Gazer

how did the laurels help him look mint?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: laurels, him · What happens: do, help, look · To what, where: him, mint

This is test 6 · ★ 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 laurels	det
4	laurels	laurel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 help	nsubj
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	xcomp
8	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	help	present	the laurels	him = he	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	look	infinitive	him = he not said here	mint	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mint=Attribute

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

they sorted him out with a crown and a cape

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 sorted	nsubj
2	sorted	sort	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 sorted	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 sorted	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 crown	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crown	det
7	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorted	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cape	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cape	det
10	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crown	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	past	they	him = he				with a crown and a cape	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they gave him proper velvet and a cap

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	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 gave	iobj
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 velvet	amod
5	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cap	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 velvet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	proper velvet and a cap	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient velvet=Theme

Option 3

they got him a nice coat and some boots

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	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 got	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coat	det
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coat	amod
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 boots	cc
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 boots	det
9	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 coat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	they	a nice coat and some boots	him = he				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary coat=Theme

Option 4

they gave him proper velvet and a cap and a diamond thing for the ball

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	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	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 gave	iobj
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 velvet	amod
5	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cap	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 velvet	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thing	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	compound
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 velvet	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 ball	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ball	det
15	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	proper velvet and a cap and a diamond thing	him = he			for the ball	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient velvet=Theme for ball=Asset

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