Test 8 · ★ · Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen…

Our kid, what did the waiting-woman do with the monster?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, waiting woman · What happens: do

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1664 «Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen eats magic onions and bears a serpent» 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 kid	nmod:poss
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
7	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woman	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 waiting	punct
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 monster	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 monster	det
13	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Our kid						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the waiting woman					with the monster	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Threw it down the stairs outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Threw	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Threw	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stairs	det
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Threw	obj
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 Threw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	past		it				outside property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination stair=Theme

Option 2

Chucked it out the window, then went downstairs and told the king it had never been born at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chucked	chuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 went	advcl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chucked	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Chucked	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chucked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 went	advmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 born	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 born	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 born	advmod
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 born	aux:pass
18	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 told	ccomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck out	participle	it					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination window=Theme
2	go	past				then	downstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past		the king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not bear	past · perfect · passive	window		all			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Shoved it into the cellar and locked it up tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shoved	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 cellar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cellar	det
5	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shoved	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 locked	cc
7	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Shoved	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 locked	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 locked	compound:prt
10	tight	tight	ADV	_	7 locked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove	past		it		the cellar			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into cellar=Destination
2	lock up	past		cellar				tight property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Chucked it out the window into the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chucked	chuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chucked	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Chucked	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chucked	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chucked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck out	participle		it		the woods			tree rules

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