Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla,…

what did the guards do to people who got close?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guards, people · What happens: do, get

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1879 «Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 1: Narcissus finds the hidden princess and falls in love» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guards	det
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 people	acl:relcl
10	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the guards	to people	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	past	people	close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

cut off their heads, no joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 cut	compound:prt
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heads	nmod:poss
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 cut	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 joke	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	imperative	you not said here	their heads				no joke obl	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cut off the heads of anyone who came close, no joke at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 cut	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heads	det
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 cut	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 anyone	case
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 heads	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 anyone	acl:relcl
9	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 came	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 joke	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 joke	det
12	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heads	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	imperative	you not said here	the heads of anyone and no joke		all			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
2	come	past						close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

chop off heads of anyone who got near the house, seriously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 chop	compound:prt
3	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 chop	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 anyone	case
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 heads	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 anyone	acl:relcl
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seriously	punct
12	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	1 chop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	imperative	you not said here	heads of anyone				seriously property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	get	past				the house			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

chase them off, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 chase	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 chase	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cap	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cap	det
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chase	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	imperative	you not said here	them = they				no cap obl	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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