Test 8 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

Ngl, what was the trouser guy trying to do with a tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, trouser guy · What happens: be, try, do · To what, where: trouser guy

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 guy	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 guy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 guy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guy	det
6	trouser	trouser	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guy	compound
7	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ngl	appos
8	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 guy	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 trying	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the trouser guy		tree rules
2	try	gerund	the trouser guy not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the trouser guy not said here		with a tree	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

hang the trousers on the oak and climb up after them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trousers	det
3	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hang	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 oak	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oak	det
6	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hang	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 climb	cc
8	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 hang	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 climb	compound:prt
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 climb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	the trousers		the oak			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trousers=Theme on oak=Destination
2	climb up	present	you not said here				after trousers		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

hang the pants on the highest branch and then jump down into the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pants	det
3	pants	pants	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 hang	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 branch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 branch	det
6	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 branch	amod
7	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hang	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 jump	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 jump	advmod
10	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 hang	conj
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 jump	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 grass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	the pants		the highest branch			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pants=Theme on branch=Destination
2	jump down	infinitive	you not said here				then	into the grass result; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into grass=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

hang the pants on it and jump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pants	det
3	pants	pants	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 hang	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hang	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 jump	cc
7	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 hang	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	the pants		it			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pants=Theme on it=Destination
2	jump	infinitive	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

pull the trousers up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trousers	det
3	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pull	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	1 pull	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	imperative	you not said here	the trousers					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trousers=Theme

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