Test 3 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

Did the little horse, like, kick folk who tried to groom it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: folk · What happens: kick, try, groom · To what, where: folk

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kick	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kick	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	8 kick	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
8	kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kick	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 tried	nsubj
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 folk	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 groom	mark
13	groom	groom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 groom	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 kick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	kick	past · do-support		folk	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent folk=Patient
2	try	past	folk		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	groom not said to happen	to-infinitive	folk not said here	folk	vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it kicked them to death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	nsubj
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 death	case
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	it	them = they				to death result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to death=Result

Option 2

Yes, it kicked them hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	nsubj
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	obj
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kicked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	it	them = they				hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it kicked them to death and bit the ones who ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	nsubj
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 death	case
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kicked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bit	cc
9	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kicked	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ones	det
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bit	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 ran	nsubj
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ones	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kick	past	it	them = they	to death result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to death=Result
2	bite	past		the ones		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	run	past	the ones			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, it kicked every single person who ever tried to comb its mane in the stable

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	nsubj
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 person	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	amod
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kicked	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tried	nsubj
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 tried	advmod
10	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 person	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 comb	mark
12	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tried	xcomp
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mane	nmod:poss
14	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comb	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 stable	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stable	det
17	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	kick	past	it	every single person			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent person=Patient
2	try	past	every single person			ever	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	comb not said to happen	to-infinitive	every single person not said here	person's mane	the stable		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mane=Patient

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