Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water…

Bruv, what's the blower gonna do to those soldiers?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gonna · What happens: be, do · To what, where: blower

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1700 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water race, the sleeping runner, and the King's iron room» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 blower	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 blower	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 blower	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 blower	det
6	blower	blower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 blower	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 soldiers	case
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 soldiers	det
11	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 blower	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the blower				Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	do	present	gonna	the blower not said here				to that soldiers	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blower=Eventuality

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

Blow them into the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Blow	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	imperative	you not said here	them = they		the river			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into river=Product

Option 2

Blow them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Blow	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Blow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow up	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Shoot them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shoot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Blow them up in the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Blow	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Blow	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sky	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow up	imperative	you not said here	them = they				in the sky	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in sky=Topic

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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