Test 7 · ★ · West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the thre…

What happens to people the Knight catches?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Knight · What happens: happen, catch · To what, where: people

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1516 «West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the three princes set out with the Thief of Sloan to reach the Knight's castle» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 people	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happens	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Knight	det
6	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catches	nsubj
7	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 people	acl:relcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						to people	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	present	the Knight	people not said here					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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 · ← Mova's choice

They get burned up in a hot pit

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	3 burned	nsubj:pass
2	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 burned	aux:pass
3	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 burned	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 pit	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pit	det
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pit	amod
8	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn up	present · passive		They		a hot pit			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 2

They get boiled alive in a red-hot furnace in the Glen

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	3 boiled	nsubj:pass
2	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 boiled	aux:pass
3	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boiled	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	10 furnace	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 furnace	det
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 furnace	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 red	punct
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 furnace	amod
10	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boiled	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 Glen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Glen	det
13	Glen	Glen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 furnace	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	present · passive		They				in a red hot furnace in the Glen; alive property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in furnace=Instrument

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They get boiled in a red-hot furnace

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	3 boiled	nsubj:pass
2	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 boiled	aux:pass
3	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 furnace	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 furnace	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hot	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 red	punct
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 furnace	amod
9	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boiled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	present · passive		They				in a hot furnace	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in furnace=Instrument

Option 4

They end up roasted in a big pit

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 end	nsubj
2	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 end	compound:prt
4	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 end	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 pit	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pit	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pit	amod
8	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	present	They						tree rules
2	roast	participle	They not said here					in a big pit	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in pit=Instrument

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