Test 4 · ★ · pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack,…

Mate, what did the goons sing while they were beating her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, goons · What happens: do, sing, beat · To what, where: goons, Mate

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goons	det
6	goons	goon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
7	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 beating	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 beating	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beating	aux
11	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sing	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 beating	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the goons	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goon=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express	present	Mate		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beat	past · progressive	goons = goon	Mate	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme

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

Bash her, bash her, crone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bash	bash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bash	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bash	punct
4	bash	bash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Bash	conj
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bash	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crone	punct
7	crone	crone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bash	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	bash	infinitive	you not said here	her = she					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent she=Patient crone=Result

Option 2

Blows will hurt you, old wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hurt	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hurt	aux
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hurt	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hurt	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wife	amod
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	future	Blows	you				old wife obl	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Blows will hurt, remember, crone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hurt	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hurt	aux
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 remember	punct
5	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hurt	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crone	punct
7	crone	crone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	future	Blows	crone					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	remember	infinitive	Blows not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Ouch, stop!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ouch	ouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ouch	punct
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	infinitive	Ouch						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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