Test 6 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a…

Did the groom do it, or did he bottle it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: groom, he · What happens: do, bottle · To what, where: groom, it

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1786 «Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a hundred hares and collects three strange payments» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 groom	det
3	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 groom	acl:relcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 did	cc
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bottle	nsubj
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bottle	nsubj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the groom	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent groom=Eventuality
2	do	present	the groom not said here	it	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bottle		he		tree rules

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 did it, but with rather feeble hops

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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hops	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 hops	cc
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 hops	case
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 feeble	advmod
8	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hops	amod
9	hops	hop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	He	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He did it, with pretty feeble whacks

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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 whacks	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 whacks	case
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 feeble	advmod
7	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 whacks	amod
8	whacks	whack	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	He	it				with feeble whacks	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

He did it, with some big whacks

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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 whacks	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 whacks	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 whacks	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 whacks	amod
8	whacks	whack	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	He	it				with some big whacks	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

He bottled it

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 bottled	nsubj
2	bottled	bottle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bottled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bottle	past	He	it					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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