Test 3 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1: a sad King ma…

Why did they hang the feather-beds, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: hang · To what, where: feather beds

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1864 «The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1: a sad King marries a sorrowful lady, and her ugly daughter starts trouble» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hang	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hang	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hang	nsubj
4	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beds	det
6	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beds	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 feather	punct
8	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hang	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 hang	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past · do-support	they	the feather beds					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient

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

To stop the noise in the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 noise	det
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		the noise		the palace			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality noise=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

So he could sleep on them tonight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 sleep	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleep	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleep	obl
7	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	could	he				tonight	on them = they	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So he wouldn't bonk himself too hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 bonk	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bonk	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bonk	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bonk	advmod
5	bonk	bonk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 bonk	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 bonk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bonk	would	he	himself = he				hard property	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient

Option 4

To keep the draughts out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 draughts	det
4	draughts	draught	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep out	to-infinitive		the draughts				out property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Theme

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