Test 2 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors spr…

Mate, why'd the three warriors start scrapping?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: three warriors · What happens: start, scrap

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2083 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors sprout from the teeth and fight to the death» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 start	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 start	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 start	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 warriors	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 warriors	nummod
7	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 start	nsubj
8	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	scrapping	scrap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 start	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	the three warriors					Mate vocative	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	scrap	gerund	the three warriors not said here						vn battle-36.4 «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

thought a bloke struck them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bloke	det
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	nsubj
4	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 thought	ccomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past							vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	strike	past	a bloke	them = they					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

they were drunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drunk	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drunk	aux:pass
3	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · passive		they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

thought a mate hit them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mate	det
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 thought	ccomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past							vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hit	past	a mate	them = they					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme

Option 4

they reckoned a mate hit them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mate	det
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	nsubj
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reckoned	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	they						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hit	past	a mate	them = they					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme

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