Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits th…

no cap, what did Stan even do with the buffalo skins?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do · To what, where: Stan

This is test 8 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cap	acl:relcl
6	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 skins	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 skins	det
11	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skins	compound
12	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	no cap	Stan					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stan=Eventuality
2	do	present	no cap not said here					with the buffalo skins	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

he stacked them by the pigs' trough

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 stacked	nsubj
2	stacked	stack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stacked	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 trough	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pigs	det
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 trough	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 pigs	case
8	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stack	past	he	them = they				by the pigs's trough	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme by trough=Destination

Option 2

he used them as a tent for sleeping

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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 tent	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tent	det
6	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 sleeping	case
8	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	them = they				as a tent; for sleeping	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Duration as tent=Attribute

Option 3

he burned them

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 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	he	them = they					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he made the dragon fill them with water

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fill	nsubj
5	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fill	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	he						tree rules
2	fill	present	the dragon	them = they				with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with water=Instrument

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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