Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

so tom got bagged for nicking cherry stones, what did the boy do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: bag, nick, do · To what, where: tom, cherry stones

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 bagged	advmod
2	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bagged	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bagged	aux:pass
4	bagged	bag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 nicking	mark
6	nicking	nick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bagged	advcl
7	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stones	compound
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nicking	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 do	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 do	nsubj
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stones	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bagged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bag	past · passive		tom	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	nick	gerund		cherry stones	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
3	do	past · do-support	the boy	cherry stones	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

he dropped the bag hard

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 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bag	det
4	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obj
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 dropped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	the bag				hard property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

shook the bag hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bag	det
3	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shook	obj
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 shook	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past		the bag				hard property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bag=Patient

Option 3

shook it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past		it					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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