Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: t…

What did the birds warn him not to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birds · What happens: do, warn, not do · To what, where: him

This is test 11 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 warn	nsubj
5	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 warn	obj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 do	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 warn	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	warn speech: warn	present	the birds	him = he	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not do	to-infinitive	the birds not said here		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

Give any word or he'd lose his way.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 lose	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lose	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lose	aux
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	any word					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	lose	would	he	his way					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Give any blood or he'd sell his soul.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 blood	det
3	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 sell	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sell	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sell	aux
7	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 soul	nmod:poss
9	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sell	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	any blood					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme
2	sell	would	he	his soul					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme

Option 3

Take any gold or he'd lose his soul.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 gold	det
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 lose	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lose	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lose	aux
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 soul	nmod:poss
9	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	any gold					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
2	lose	would	he	his soul					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Eventuality

Option 4

Drink any wine.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 wine	det
3	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drink	obj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Drink	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	imperative	you not said here	any wine					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient

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