Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier trick…

Lol, the farmer lay down and watched a man fly up to heaven?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer, man · What happens: lie down, watch, fly up · To what, where: man

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1948 «English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier tricks a foolish farmer's wife out of ten gold pounds, then the farmer out of his horse» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 lay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 watched	cc
8	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watched	obj
11	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 watched	xcomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 fly	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 heaven	case
14	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fly	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	the farmer		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	past	the farmer not said here	a man		tree rules
3	fly up	infinitive	a man not said here		to heaven result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to heaven=Result

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

nah, he got played

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 played	aux:pass
5	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · passive		he					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, Jack totally tricked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	nsubj
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 tricked	advmod
5	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	Jack	him = he				totally property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he got totally played by Jack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 played	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 played	aux:pass
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 played	advmod
6	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Jack	case
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · passive	Jack	he				totally property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

yeah, he saw the angel fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fly	det
6	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	compound
7	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	the angel fly					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus

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