Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steal…

Wait, what did the slave threaten her with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, slave · What happens: wait, threaten · To what, where: her

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1649 «Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steals the credit, then a brother rescues the other from a witch» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 threaten	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 threaten	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threaten	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 slave	det
6	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	nsubj
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 threaten	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	7 threaten	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	threaten	past · do-support	the slave	her = she					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer she=Result

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

Bury her in the river mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bury	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 mud	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mud	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mud	compound
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bury	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	imperative	you not said here	her = she		the river mud			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in mud=Destination

Option 2

Bury her in the river mud up to her neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bury	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 mud	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mud	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mud	compound
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bury	obl
7	up	up	ADV	_	1 Bury	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 neck	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 neck	nmod:poss
10	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bury	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	imperative	you not said here	her = she		the river mud		to her neck	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in mud=Destination

Option 3

Bury her alive in the river mud beside the old bridge at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 alive	nmod:poss
3	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bury	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 mud	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mud	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mud	compound
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bury	obl
8	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 bridge	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bridge	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bridge	amod
11	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bury	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bury	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	imperative	you not said here	her alive		the river mud	night	beside the old bridge	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent alive=Theme in mud=Destination

Option 4

Leave her in the cold mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 mud	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mud	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mud	amod
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	her = she		the cold mud			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in mud=Location

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