Test 7 · ★ · pg641, Halfman, part 62: the ogre's kin burn, the ogress f…

So his brothers were proper nasty then, yeah?

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

This is test 7 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 nasty	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brothers	nmod:poss
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nasty	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nasty	cop
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nasty	amod
6	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 nasty	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nasty	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 nasty	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 nasty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his brothers				then	nasty property	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

Yeah, they ran off to be pirates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	8 pirates	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 pirates	cop
8	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	they						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	they not said here	pirates					tree rules

Option 2

Nah, they just took his bike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 took	advmod
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bike	nmod:poss
7	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	they	his bike					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme

Option 3

Nah, they gave him a bit of cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cake	case
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	a bit of cake	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bit=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they left him to drown in the brook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 drown	mark
7	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 brook	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brook	det
10	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	they	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	drown	to-infinitive	they not said here			the brook			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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