Test 7 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes…

Did the duke ever go mental at his cooks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: duke · What happens: go

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1791 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes the duke's cook and meets a talking goose» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duke	det
3	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 cooks	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cooks	nmod:poss
9	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mental	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the duke				ever	mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Yeah, he threw pots at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	pots				at pots = pot	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pot=Theme at they=Destination

Option 2

Yeah, he chucked plates and dishes at them whenever the food was cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chucked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chucked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chucked	nsubj
4	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chucked	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dishes	cc
7	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plates	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chucked	obl
10	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 cold	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 food	det
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cold	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cold	cop
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chucked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past	he	plates and dishes				at dishes = dish	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent plate=Theme at they=Destination
2	is	past	the food					cold, whenever property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, he hurled dishes at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hurled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hurled	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hurled	nsubj
4	hurled	hurl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurled	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hurled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurl	past	he	dishes				at dishes = dish	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent dish=Theme at they=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he chucked plates at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chucked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chucked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chucked	nsubj
4	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chucked	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chucked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past	he	plates				at plates = plate	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent plate=Theme at they=Destination

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