Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the puddi…

was the whole thing a lie about Tom's dad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: whole thing

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1964 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the pudding, a cow swallows Tom, a fish and a raven carry him far, and his last journey ends with a spider» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thing	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lie	compound
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lie	det
6	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 dad	case
8	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dad	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Tom	case
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lie	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the whole thing					tree rules

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

nah, his mum made him a bow of rushes, true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	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 made	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bow	det
8	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 rushes	case
10	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bow	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	his mum	a bow of rushes	him = he				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary bow=Product

Option 2

yeah, his dad made him a whip of barley straw and a hat of grass and a little coat, true, mad

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	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 made	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 whip	det
8	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 straw	case
10	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 straw	compound
11	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whip	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hat	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hat	det
14	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 straw	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 grass	case
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hat	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 coat	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 coat	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 coat	amod
20	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 straw	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 true	punct
22	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mad	punct
24	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 true	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	his dad	a whip of barley straw and a hat of grass and a little coat	him = he				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary whip=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, his dad made him a whip of barley straw, true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	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 made	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 whip	det
8	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 straw	case
10	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 straw	compound
11	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whip	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 true	punct
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	his dad	a whip of barley straw	him = he				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary whip=Product

Option 4

yeah his dad gave him a whip of reeds, true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 whip	det
7	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 reeds	case
9	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 whip	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 true	punct
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whip	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	his dad	a whip of reeds	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient whip=Theme

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