Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last…

honestly, how did his neighbours react to his cure?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: neighbours · What happens: do, react

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» 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	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 neighbours	nmod:poss
6	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 react	nsubj
7	react	react	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 cure	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cure	nmod:poss
10	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 react	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						honestly property	tree rules
2	react	present	his neighbours					to his cure	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to cure=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they were all over him, asking

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	5 him	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 him	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 him	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 asking	punct
7	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 him	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					over him = he; all property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	they not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

they gathered and begged 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	2 gathered	nsubj
2	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 begged	cc
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gathered	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	they						vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	they not said here		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

they came round and asked 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	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 asked	cc
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come round	past	they					round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	they not said here		him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4

they were all over him, asking him questions day and night about it

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	5 him	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 him	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 him	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 asking	punct
7	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 him	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asking	obj
9	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 day	compound
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asking	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 night	cc
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 night	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					over him = he; all property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund			him = he		day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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