Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the se…

Wicked, what did Minnikin do to the Troll with his sword?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Minnikin · What happens: do

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1574 «Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the second and third Trolls, and the Princess wins her rescuer» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 do	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Troll	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Troll	det
9	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 sword	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sword	nmod:poss
12	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Minnikin					to the Troll; with Minnikin's sword	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Made all fifteen heads dance away over the sands and into the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heads	amod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 heads	det
3	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 heads	nummod
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dance	nsubj
5	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 dance	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 sands	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sands	det
9	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dance	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sea	cc
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sands	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	dance away	present	all Made fifteen heads			the sands and the sea		away property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sand=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Made all fifteen heads dance away over the sands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heads	amod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 heads	det
3	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 heads	nummod
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dance	nsubj
5	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 dance	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 sands	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sands	det
9	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	dance away	present	all Made fifteen heads			the sands		away property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sand=Location

Option 3

Made all the heads roll across the beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heads	amod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 heads	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heads	det
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 roll	nsubj
5	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 beach	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beach	det
8	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roll	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	roll	present	all Made heads			the beach			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across beach=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Chopped all his fifteen heads off there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 heads	det:predet
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heads	nmod:poss
4	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 heads	nummod
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chopped	obj
6	off	off	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Chopped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past		his fifteen heads		there			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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