Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfarona…

Gutted for the boatman, what was the Admiral gonna do to him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boatman · What happens: gut, be, do · To what, where: Admiral gonna, him

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1509 «Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfaronade eats all the food and the Princess vanishes» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 boatman	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boatman	det
4	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gutted	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gonna	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 gonna	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gonna	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gonna	det
9	Admiral	admiral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gonna	amod
10	gonna	gonna	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boatman	conj
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Gutted	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gut	participle				for the boatman and the Admiral gonna	tree rules
2	is a	past	the boatman and the Admiral gonna	the Admiral gonna			tree rules
3	do	infinitive			him = he		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Give him a long sea prison term

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 term	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 term	amod
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prison	compound
6	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 term	compound
7	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a long prison term	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient term=Theme

Option 2

Whip him with the cat-o'-nine-tails until he confesses everything

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whip	whip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Whip	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 o	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 o	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 o	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cat	punct
7	o	o	NOUN	_	1 Whip	obl
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Whip	punct
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 nine	punct
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 tails	nummod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 nine	punct
12	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Whip	obj
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 confesses	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 confesses	nsubj
15	confesses	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Whip	advcl
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 confesses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip	imperative	you not said here	him = he				with the cat o	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent he=Patient tail=Result
2	confess	present	he	everything					vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Whip him with the cat-o'-nine-tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whip	whip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Whip	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 o	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 o	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 o	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cat	punct
7	o	o	NOUN	_	1 Whip	obl
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Whip	punct
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 nine	punct
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 tails	nummod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 nine	punct
12	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Whip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip	imperative	you not said here	him = he				with the cat o	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent he=Patient tail=Result

Option 4

Make him walk the plank now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plank	det
5	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	walk	infinitive	him = he not said here	the plank			now		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plank=Trajectory

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