Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches…

yo, what did the Mayor try to do to the clown, proper?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mayor · What happens: try, do

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1902 «Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches a crowd and the Princess laughs at last» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 try	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 try	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 try	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mayor	det
6	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 try	nsubj
7	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 clown	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clown	det
12	clown	clown	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proper	punct
14	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clown	amod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · do-support	the Mayor						tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Mayor not said here					to the clown	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

hand him to the guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hand	hand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hand	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 guards	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guards	det
5	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the guards			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to guard=Destination

Option 2

drag him off to the police and lock him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 drag	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 drag	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 police	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 police	det
6	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 drag	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lock	cc
8	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 drag	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lock	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 lock	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag off	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the police			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to police=Destination
2	lock up	present	you not said here	him = he					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

drag him off to the police

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 drag	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 drag	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 police	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 police	det
6	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 drag	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag off	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the police			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to police=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

try to drag him off to the police station in chains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 drag	mark
3	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 try	xcomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drag	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 drag	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 station	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 station	det
8	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 station	compound
9	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drag	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 chains	case
11	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 station	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	drag off not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he		the police station in chains			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to station=Destination

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