Test 10 · ★ · Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in…

What did his mum get told?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tell · To what, where: mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1796 «Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in a honey pit, escapes through a scorpion's hole, and is caught at the baths» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 told	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
5	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive · do-support		his mum					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient what=Topic

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

That he had been sold to a merchant and sailed far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 sold	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sold	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sold	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 sold	aux:pass
5	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 merchant	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 merchant	det
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sold	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sailed	cc
10	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sold	conj
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 sailed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past · perfect · passive		That	a merchant				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to merchant=Recipient
2	sail	past						away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That a lion dragged him off into the deep woods and ate him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 lion	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	nsubj
4	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dragged	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 dragged	compound:prt
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 woods	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woods	det
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woods	amod
10	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dragged	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ate	cc
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dragged	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag off	past	that lion	him = he		the deep woods			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	eat	past	that lion not said here	lion					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That a lion nabbed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 lion	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	nabbed	nab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lion	acl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nab	participle	that lion not said here	lion					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

A snake bit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bit	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	compound
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bit	obj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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