Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland…

Did the giant's daughters get sorted in the night?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sort · To what, where: daughters

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1961 «English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland frees his sister and the Elfin King, then Molly Whuppie tricks a giant three times» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sorted	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughters	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 giant	case
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sorted	nsubj:pass
6	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sorted	aux:pass
7	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 night	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sorted	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sorted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	past · passive · do-support		the giant's daughters			night		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Nah, he kept them alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	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 kept	obj
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	them = they				alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they got away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get away	past	they					away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he battered them by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 battered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 battered	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 battered	nsubj
4	battered	batter	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 battered	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 mistake	case
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 battered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	batter	past	he	them = they				by mistake	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, he chucked them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chucked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chucked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chucked	nsubj
4	chucked	chuck	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 chucked	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 chucked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck out	past	he	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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