Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dragon's Grandmother: the soldier…

Did the Fiend take the three soldiers down with him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fiend · What happens: take · To what, where: three soldiers

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1687 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dragon's Grandmother: the soldiers trick the Dragon with the answer to his riddle» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fiend	det
3	Fiend	Fiend	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldiers	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 soldiers	nummod
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
8	down	down	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	the Fiend	the three soldiers				with him = he; down property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=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

Nah, the answers saved them so they stayed up top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 saved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 answers	det
4	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saved	nsubj
5	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saved	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 stayed	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stayed	nsubj
9	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saved	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 stayed	compound:prt
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stayed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	the answers	them = they					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	stay up	past	answers = answer	top					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, the Fiend took two of them down below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fiend	det
4	Fiend	Fiend	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 two	nmod
9	down	down	ADP	_	5 took	compound:prt
10	below	below	ADV	_	5 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take down	past	the Fiend	two of them				below property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, all three went down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 three	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	all three					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Nah, the Fiend left them behind in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fiend	det
4	Fiend	fiend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	obj
7	behind	behind	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the Fiend	them = they		the sea		behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in sea=Location

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