Test 4 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper…

Dude, what did Paul get for telling the old woman cinders?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Paul · What happens: get, tell · To what, where: Dude, old woman cinders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1785 «Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper helps the ants and is set to sort the grain» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 get	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dude	conj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 telling	mark
8	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 get	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cinders	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cinders	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cinders	compound
12	cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 telling	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Paul	Dude					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	Paul not said here	the old woman cinders					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cinder=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

His pearls turned to cinders too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 pearls	nmod:poss
2	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 cinders	case
5	cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	His pearls			cinders			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to cinder=Trajectory
2	pearl		His = he						nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He got his pearls back, then they turned to cinders right in front of the king

The tree, 16 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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pearls	nmod:poss
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 got	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 turned	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 turned	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 cinders	case
11	cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turned	obl
12	right	right	ADV	_	14 front	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 king	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past	He	his pearls				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pearl=Stimulus
2	turn	past	pearls = pearl		front of the king	then	to cinders	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to cinder=Source in front=Trajectory
3	pearl		his = he					nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

His gold turned to dust too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gold	nmod:poss
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dust	mark
5	dust	dust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turned	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 dust	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	His gold						tree rules
2	dust	to-infinitive	His gold not said here						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 4

His pearls turned to cinders too, and he got sent home without a reward

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 pearls	nmod:poss
2	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 cinders	case
5	cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sent	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sent	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sent	nsubj
10	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sent	aux:pass
11	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 turned	conj
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 sent	advmod
13	without	without	ADP	_	15 reward	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 reward	det
15	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	His pearls		cinders		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to cinder=Trajectory
2	send	past · passive		he		without a reward; home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	pearl		His = he				nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=agent

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