Test 11 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K…

Why was the tree bloke carrying whole trees, then?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tree bloke · What happens: carry · To what, where: whole trees

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 carrying	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carrying	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bloke	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bloke	compound
5	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carrying	nsubj
6	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trees	amod
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carrying	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 carrying	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 carrying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · progressive	the tree bloke	whole trees			then		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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

He said he'd chopped firewood

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chopped	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chopped	aux
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
6	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	chop	past · perfect	he	firewood					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=Patient

Option 2

He reckoned he'd only got stones

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 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
6	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 reckoned	ccomp
7	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	He						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	past · perfect	he	stones					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He reckoned he'd only gathered brushwood

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 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gathered	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gathered	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 gathered	advmod
6	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 reckoned	ccomp
7	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gathered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	He						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	gather	past · perfect	he	brushwood					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brushwood=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He was just lost

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	4 lost	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 lost	advmod
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		He					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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