Test 7 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Star Gazer

why did lina chop the laurels down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lina · What happens: chop down · To what, where: laurels

This is test 7 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 chop	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chop	aux
3	lina	lina	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chop	nsubj
4	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 laurels	det
6	laurels	laurel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chop	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 chop	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop down	past · do-support	lina	the laurels				down property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laurel=Patient

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

she thought they gave him too much swagger at court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 swagger	amod
8	swagger	swagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 court	case
10	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	give	past	they	much swagger	him = he	court			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient swagger=Theme at court=Asset

Option 2

she reckoned they made him too flash for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reckoned	ccomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 flash	advmod
7	flash	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	she			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	past	they	him = he		tree rules
3	flash	present	they not said here		for her = she	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she thought they gave him too much edge over her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 edge	amod
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	give	past	they	much edge	her = she				tree rules

Option 4

cos they were in the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 way	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they			the way			tree rules

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