Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the gol…

Bro, what did the bride's dad try to do when he found out?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: try, do, find out

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1931 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the golden lad is turned to stone» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 try	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 try	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bride	det
6	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dad	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 bride	case
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 try	xcomp
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 found	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 do	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 found	compound:prt
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	try	past · do-support	Bro	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Bro not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find out	past	Bro	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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

beat him with a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 beat	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 stick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	imperative	you not said here	him = he				with a stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with stick=Instrument

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

rush at him with a sword to kill him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rush	rush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 rush	obl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sword	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sword	det
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rush	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 kill	mark
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 rush	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush	imperative	you not said here					at him = he; with a sword	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory
2	kill	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

rush at him to kill him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rush	rush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 rush	obl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 kill	mark
5	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 rush	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush	imperative	you not said here					at him = he	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory
2	kill	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

chase him out the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase out	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules

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