Test 5 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes th…

Mate, why did the squire send Hans off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: squire · What happens: send off · To what, where: Hans

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1633 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes the lake's fish flood the squire's yard and returns with gold from Purgatory» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 send	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 send	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 send	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 squire	det
6	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 send	nsubj
7	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 send	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 send	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	past · do-support	the squire	Hans				Mate vocative	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hans=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

To fetch the ale from town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ale	det
4	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 town	case
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		the ale		town			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ale=Theme from town=Source

Option 2

To get three years' tribute from Purgatory for the squire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tribute	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 years	case
6	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Purgatory	case
8	Purgatory	Purgatory	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 squire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 squire	det
11	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		three years's tribute		Purgatory		for the squire	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent tribute=Theme from purgatory=Source for squire=Asset

Option 3

Because his wife told him to send Hans to Purgatory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	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 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 send	mark
7	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 send	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Purgatory	case
10	Purgatory	Purgatory	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	his wife		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	send not said to happen	to-infinitive	his wife not said here	Hans	Purgatory				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hans=Theme to purgatory=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To get tribute from Purgatory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Purgatory	case
5	Purgatory	Purgatory	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		tribute		Purgatory			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tribute=Theme from purgatory=Source

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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