Test 10 · ★ · Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becom…

Did Drakestail get the crown, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: get · To what, where: crown

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1552 «Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becomes king, and the piper clears Hamel of rats, then the children vanish» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
2	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crown	det
5	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nah	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 get	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Drakestail	the crown					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crown=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it fitted him like wax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fitted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fitted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fitted	nsubj
4	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fitted	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 wax	case
7	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fitted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	past	it	him = he				like wax	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it fitted him like wax and he wore it proudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fitted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fitted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fitted	nsubj
4	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fitted	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 wax	case
7	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fitted	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wore	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wore	nsubj
10	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fitted	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wore	obj
12	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	10 wore	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	past	it	him = he				like wax	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	wear	past	he	wax				proudly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Nah, it was far too big and slipped right off his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 big	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 big	cop
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 big	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slipped	cc
9	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 big	conj
10	right	right	ADV	_	9 slipped	advmod
11	off	off	ADP	_	13 head	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					big, far property	tree rules
2	slip	past						off his head; right property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient off head=Co-Patient

Option 4

Yeah, it sat on him well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	obl
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	it					on him = he; well property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location

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