Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong Hans, part 21: Hans o…

No cap, how did Hans carry the whole cart back home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap · What happens: carry · To what, where: whole cart

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1632 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong Hans, part 21: Hans outwits the squire's plots and beats Old Eric at Devilmoss Lake» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 carry	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 carry	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 carry	aux
6	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carry	nsubj
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cart	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cart	amod
10	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obj
11	back	back	ADV	_	12 home	advmod
12	home	home	ADV	_	7 carry	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · do-support	no cap	the whole cart				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=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 · ✓ the right answer

He hoisted it on his back with the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hoisted	nsubj
2	hoisted	hoist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hoisted	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hoisted	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hoisted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hoist	past	He	it		his back		with the trees	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on back=Destination

Option 2

He balanced it on his head fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 balanced	nsubj
2	balanced	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 balanced	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 balanced	obl
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 balanced	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	balance	past	He	it		his head			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on head=Location

Option 3

He unhitched the horses and carried the entire loaded cart and every tree on his shoulders all the way back home

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 unhitched	nsubj
2	unhitched	unhitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horses	det
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 unhitched	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 carried	cc
6	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 unhitched	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 entire	det
8	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 loaded	nsubj
9	loaded	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carried	ccomp
10	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loaded	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tree	cc
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 shoulders	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shoulders	nmod:poss
16	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carried	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 way	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 unhitched	obl:unmarked
20	back	back	ADV	_	21 home	advmod
21	home	home	ADV	_	2 unhitched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	unhitch	past	He	the horses		all way obl:unmarked; home property	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	carry	past	He not said here		his shoulders		tree rules
3	load	past	the entire	cart			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cart=Theme

Option 4

He dragged it back by the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dragged	nsubj
2	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dragged	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 dragged	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 horse	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag back	past	He	it				by the horse	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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