Test 11 · ★ · pg641, Schippeitaro, what happens: a brave youth frees a m…

Did the villagers believe him straight away?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: villagers · What happens: believe · To what, where: him

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1756 «pg641, Schippeitaro, what happens: a brave youth frees a maiden from a cat monster with a borrowed dog» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 villagers	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 villagers	det
3	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 believe	nsubj
4	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believe	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 believe	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 believe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	the villagers	him = he				away property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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

Yeah, they gave him a horse and a sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sword	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sword	det
10	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horse	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	a horse and a sword	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they laughed at his weird question about the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 question	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 question	nmod:poss
7	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 question	amod
8	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	obl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 dog	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 question	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	they			his weird question about the dog			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	question		his = he					about the dog	nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they chased him out of the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	nsubj
4	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 village	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 village	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 village	det
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	they	him = he		the village			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out village=Trajectory

Option 4

Yeah, they cheered and sang him a whole song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cheered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cheered	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheered	nsubj
4	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sang	cc
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cheered	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sang	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 song	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 song	amod
10	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	past	they						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	sing speech: express	past	they not said here	a whole song	him = he				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary song=Theme

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