Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

deadass, what did the crowd do with the bagpipe guy?

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

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» 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	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crowd	det
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 guy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 guy	det
10	bagpipe	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guy	compound
11	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the crowd					with the bagpipe guy; deadass vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

followed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 followed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past		him = he					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

cheered for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 cheered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	past						for him = he	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

laughed at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past 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 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past						at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

chased

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	participle							vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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