Test 4 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the w…

bruh, how did Esben get the daughter to sit on the spade?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Esben, daughter · What happens: get, sit · To what, where: daughter, spade

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1659 «Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the witch, saves his brothers and goes home» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	6 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 daughter	det
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sit	mark
10	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 get	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 spade	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spade	det
13	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sit	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Esben	the daughter					tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive	the daughter not said here			the spade			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spade=Location

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

he pretended the spade was far too hot

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 pretended	nsubj
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spade	det
4	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hot	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hot	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 hot	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 hot	advmod
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pretended	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	he						tree rules
2	is	past	the spade					far, hot property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he made out he was too dumb to get it

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dumb	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dumb	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 dumb	advmod
7	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dumb	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make out	past	he			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	he		dumb property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	he not said here	it		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

he made out he was too dumb to get it, so she came over to show him

The tree, 17 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dumb	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dumb	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 dumb	advmod
7	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dumb	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
15	over	over	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 show	mark
17	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 came	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 show	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make out	past	he				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	he			dumb property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	he not said here	it			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	come over	past	she			over property	tree rules
5	show	to-infinitive	she not said here		him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4

he pretended he was too stupid to lift his own legs up onto the spade

The tree, 15 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 pretended	nsubj
2	pretended	pretend	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 stupid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stupid	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 stupid	advmod
6	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pretended	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lift	mark
8	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stupid	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 legs	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 legs	amod
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lift	obj
12	up	up	ADV	_	8 lift	advmod
13	onto	onto	ADP	_	15 spade	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spade	det
15	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pretended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	he		the spade		tree rules
2	is	past	he			stupid property	tree rules
3	lift	to-infinitive	he not said here	his own legs			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme

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