Test 5 · ★ · fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: t…

how did he trick the cow, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: trick · To what, where: cow

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1764 «fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: the prince is set a hay task and tricks a horse and a cow» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 trick	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trick	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trick	nsubj
4	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trick	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 real	case
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 real	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trick	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · do-support	he	the cow					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient

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 pretended to be the maid

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 pretended	nsubj
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 maid	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 maid	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maid	det
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pretended	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	He						tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	He not said here	the maid					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He said he was heating tongs

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	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	5 heating	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heating	aux
5	heating	heat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
6	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	heat	past · progressive	he	tongs					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tong=Patient

Option 3

He said he was heating tongs and whispered the old man's name to calm it down

The tree, 17 words

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	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	5 heating	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heating	aux
5	heating	heat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
6	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heating	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 whispered	cc
8	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 name	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 man	case
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whispered	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 calm	mark
15	calm	calm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 whispered	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 calm	obj
17	down	down	ADP	_	15 calm	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	heat	past · progressive	he	tongs	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tong=Patient
3	whisper speech: assert	past	He not said here	the old man's name	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
4	calm down	to-infinitive	He not said here	name	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	name		the old man		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He said he was heating tongs so the cow would not notice how little milk it gave

The tree, 17 words

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	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	5 heating	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heating	aux
5	heating	heat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
6	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heating	obj
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 notice	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 notice	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 notice	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 notice	advmod
12	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	advcl
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 little	advmod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 milk	amod
15	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 notice	obj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 milk	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	heat	past · progressive	he	tongs	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tong=Patient
3	not notice	would	the cow	little milk	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer milk=Stimulus
4	give	past	milk	little milk not said here	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme

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