Test 10 · ★ · Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom m…

What did the boys do to Tom in town, the cheeky ones?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boys · What happens: do · To what, where: Tom, town

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2021 «Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom makes the princess laugh twice and sends off the wolf» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Tom	case
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 town	case
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ones	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ones	det
12	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ones	amod
13	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 town	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the boys		Tom	town and the cheeky ones			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Put their tongues out at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tongues	nmod:poss
3	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Put	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	imperative	you not said here	their tongues				at him = he; out property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at he=Destination

Option 2

Put their tongues out at him and followed him down the street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tongues	nmod:poss
3	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Put	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 followed	cc
8	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 followed	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 followed	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 street	det
12	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 followed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	imperative	you not said here	their tongues				at him = he; out property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at he=Destination
2	follow down	past	you not said here	him = he				the street obl:unmarked	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Put their tongues out at him and threw stones at his goatskin coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tongues	nmod:poss
3	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Put	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 threw	cc
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	conj
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 threw	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 coat	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 coat	nmod:poss
12	goatskin	goatskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coat	compound
13	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	imperative	you not said here	their tongues				at him = he; out property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at he=Destination
2	throw	past	you not said here	stones		his goatskin coat			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at coat=Destination

Option 4

Shouted rude words at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 words	amod
2	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 words	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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