Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: t…

Why did she let him off the hook?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: let off · To what, where: hook, him

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1680 «Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: the birds lead him to the moonlit spring» 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	4 let	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hook	det
8	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let off	past · do-support	she	the hook	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hook=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 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he was a stranger who didn't know better.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 stranger	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stranger	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stranger	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stranger	det
5	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 know	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stranger	acl:relcl
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 know	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stranger	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a stranger					tree rules
2	not know	past · do-support	a stranger						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Cos he was a guest who was tired.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 guest	case
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 guest	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 guest	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 guest	det
5	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tired	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 tired	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tired	cop
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					cos a guest	tree rules
2	is	past						tired property	tree rules

Option 3

Cos he was a stranger from far away.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 stranger	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stranger	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stranger	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stranger	det
5	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 far	case
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 stranger	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stranger	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a stranger				away property	tree rules

Option 4

Cos he was sorry.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 sorry	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sorry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sorry	cop
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sorry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sorry property	tree rules

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