Test 8 · ★ · Folk Tales, Jack My Hedgehog and The Golden Lads: the hedg…
Bruh, why did the guards burn the hedgehog skin in the first place?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guards · What happens: burn · To what, where: hedgehog skin, first place
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1930 «Folk Tales, Jack My Hedgehog and The Golden Lads: the hedgehog hero's bride is cast off, his skin burns, and a golden fish brings a castle» 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 | Bruh | bruh | INTJ | _ | 7 burn | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruh | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 burn | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 burn | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guards | det |
| 6 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 burn | nsubj |
| 7 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 skin | det |
| 9 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skin | compound |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burn | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 place | amod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burn | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 burn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past · do-support | the guards | the hedgehog skin | the first place | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=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 · ✓ the right answer
To set Jack free from the enchantment, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 set | mark |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obj |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 set | xcomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 enchantment | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 enchantment | det |
| 7 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enchantment | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | to-infinitive | Jack | the enchantment and innit | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient jack=Result |
Option 2
To burn the skin and be rid of him, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 burn | mark |
| 2 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 skin | det |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burn | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rid | cc |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rid | cop |
| 7 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 burn | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rid | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 burn | punct |
| 11 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 2 burn | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | to-infinitive | the skin | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | of him = he; rid property | tree rules |
Option 3
To set Jack free from the enchantment he was under, because the skin was what kept him a hedgehog, innit
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 set | mark |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obj |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 set | xcomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 enchantment | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 enchantment | det |
| 7 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 free | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 under | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 under | cop |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 enchantment | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 what | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 what | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 skin | det |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 what | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | cop |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 set | conj |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kept | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hedgehog | det |
| 20 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 innit | punct |
| 22 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hedgehog | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | to-infinitive | Jack | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient jack=Result | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the skin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | keep | past | Jack | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme hedgehog=Attribute |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Because the King ordered them to destroy the hedgehog so no one would ever find out about him, bruv
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 ordered | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | 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 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 destroy | mark |
| 7 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ordered | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hedgehog | det |
| 9 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 destroy | obj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 find | advmod |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 find | advmod |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 destroy | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 find | compound:prt |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bruv | punct |
| 20 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the King | them = they | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | destroy not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the hedgehog | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find out | would | no one | ever | about King | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about he=Topic |
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