Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard ord…

What did Guilbert wanna do to Burchard, like, seriously?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Guilbert · What happens: do · To what, where: Burchard

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» 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	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	Guilbert	Guilbert	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
4	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 Guilbert	dep
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Burchard	case
7	Burchard	Burchard	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	7 Burchard	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seriously	punct
11	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Guilbert	Burchard				seriously property	tree rules

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

burn his whole castle down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 castle	nmod:poss
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 castle	amod
4	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 burn	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	1 burn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	his whole castle				down property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent castle=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

split his skull with an axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 skull	nmod:poss
3	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 split	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 axe	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 axe	det
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	imperative	you not said here	his skull				with a axe	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent skull=Patient with axe=Instrument

Option 3

chase him out of the village with dogs and a long whip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 chase	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 village	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chase	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 dogs	case
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 village	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 whip	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 whip	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 whip	amod
12	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 village	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the village with dogs and a long whip			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out village=Trajectory

Option 4

tie him up and drag him through the muddy streets of Quesnoy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tie	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 tie	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drag	cc
5	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 tie	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drag	obj
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 streets	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 streets	det
9	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 streets	amod
10	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drag	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Quesnoy	case
12	Quesnoy	Quesnoy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 streets	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	drag	infinitive	you not said here	him = he		the muddy streets of Quesnoy			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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