Test 8 · ★ · Slavonic Fairy Tales, Ferko, part 17: blinded and crippled…

Why was Ferko gutted after the King's order?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: gut, order · To what, where: Ferko

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1693 «Slavonic Fairy Tales, Ferko, part 17: blinded and crippled Ferko heals himself and wins the King's test» 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 gutted	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	aux:pass
3	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	9 order	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 order	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gutted	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		Ferko			after the King's order		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	order		the King						nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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

he was hungry

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	3 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

he feared the ravens would attack him

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ravens	det
4	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 attack	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 attack	aux
6	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 attack	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	he						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	attack	would	the ravens	him = he					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

he'd lost his bread

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	3 lost	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bread	nmod:poss
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	he	his bread					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he thought he'd be hung for failing

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	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 hung	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hung	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hung	aux:pass
6	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 failing	case
8	failing	failing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hang	would · passive		he				for failing	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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