Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits th…

bro, why did the dragon do all the heavy work?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro · What happens: do · To what, where: dragon, heavy work

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1770 «Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits the dragon and his mother» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 work	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 work	det
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 work	amod
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the dragon					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Eventuality
2	do	present	bro	all heavy work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=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

cause Stan was strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 strong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	Stan					strong property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

cause Stan threatened him with the moon and the brook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 threatened	nsubj
3	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threatened	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threatened	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brook	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brook	det
10	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moon	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	threaten	past	Stan	him = he				with the moon and the brook	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 3

cause the dragon was just lazy that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragon	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lazy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lazy	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 lazy	advmod
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lazy	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

Option 4

cause the mom ordered him to do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mom	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mom	det
3	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ordered	nsubj
4	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ordered	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ordered	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cause	infinitive				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	order	past	the cause mom		him = he	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the cause mom not said here	it		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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