Test 6 · ★ · pg641, Halfman, part 62: the ogre's kin burn, the ogress f…

Did she actually kill the brother or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: kill · To what, where: brother

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1811 «pg641, Halfman, part 62: the ogre's kin burn, the ogress falls, and a son is promised away» 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	4 kill	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kill	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 kill	advmod
4	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 brother	appos
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · do-support	she	the brother				actually property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she stung him behind the ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stung	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stung	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stung	nsubj
4	stung	sting	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 stung	obj
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 ear	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ear	det
8	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	past	she	him = he		the ear			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 2

Nah, he just got a bit poorly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
8	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	5 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	a bit				poorly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus

Option 3

Yeah, she drowned him in the brook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 drowned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drowned	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drowned	nsubj
4	drowned	drown	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 drowned	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 brook	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brook	det
8	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drowned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past	she	him = he		the brook			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Nah, he went off to foreign lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 lands	case
7	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lands	amod
8	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	he					to foreign lands	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

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