Test 3 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's do…

Mate, what did the stranger do when he got locked up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, lock up · To what, where: stranger, Mate

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1941 «Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's dog slays the dragon, the false coachman takes the reward, and the shepherd returns to win the princess back» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stranger	det
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 locked	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 locked	nsubj:pass
10	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 locked	aux:pass
11	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 do	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 locked	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the stranger	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Eventuality
2	do	present	Mate		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lock up	past · passive		Mate	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

he cried a lot

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	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	he	a lot					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

called his dog Mustard to bite the bars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dog	nmod:poss
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 called	obj
4	Mustard	Mustard	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dog	appos
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bite	mark
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 called	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bars	det
8	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past			his dog				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient
2	bite	to-infinitive		the bars					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he called his dog Pepper to chew the door

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	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Pepper	nmod:poss
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Pepper	compound
5	Pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 chew	mark
7	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	he	his dog Pepper					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pepper=Recipient
2	chew	to-infinitive	he not said here	the door					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 4

he called the king

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	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	he		the king				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

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