Test 10 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden…

what did the dog do with the baby once he got him out?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: do, get out · To what, where: him

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1844 «Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden in the dog and the cow, the Queens' plots» 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	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 baby	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	once	once	SCONJ	_	11 got	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 got	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the dog					with the baby	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	get out	past	dog	him = 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

licked him clean gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 licked	obj
3	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 licked	xcomp
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 clean	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick	past		him = he					tree rules
2	clean	infinitive						gently property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

carried him far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 carried	obj
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 carried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past		him = he				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

carried him off across the plain to the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 carried	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 carried	compound:prt
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 plain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plain	det
6	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carried	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 village	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 village	det
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	past		him = he		the plain		to the village	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to village=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

swallowed him to hide him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 swallowed	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hide	mark
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 swallowed	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past		him = he					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	hide	to-infinitive		him = he					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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