Test 4 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

Why'd the brothers chuck him in the lake, mate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: chuck · To what, where: him, lake

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 chuck	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 chuck	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chuck	nsubj
5	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chuck	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 lake	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chuck	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lake	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	would	the brothers	him = he		the lake and mate			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in lake=Destination

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

They were jealous of him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jealous	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jealous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					of him = he; jealous property	tree rules

Option 2

They were jealous of him because he had won the golden cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jealous	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jealous	obl
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 won	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 won	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 won	aux
9	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 jealous	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cage	det
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cage	amod
12	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					of him = he; jealous property	tree rules
2	win	past · perfect	he	the golden cage					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They wanted his cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cage	nmod:poss
4	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They	his cage					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cage=Theme

Option 4

He had stolen their horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stolen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stolen	aux
3	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horse	nmod:poss
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stolen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect	He	their horse					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme

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