Test 5 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

Innit true the imp said Tom let him out?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: true imp, Tom · What happens: say, let out · To what, where: imp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 true	compound
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 imp	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 imp	det
4	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 let	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the true imp						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let out	past	Tom	imp					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

yeah, Tom let him go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	Tom	him = he					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, Tom let him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	past	Tom	him = he					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

yeah, Tom let him out of the jar himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 jar	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 jar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jar	det
9	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	9 jar	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	Tom	him = he		the jar Tom			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

yeah, Tom let him out of the stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 stone	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 stone	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	Tom	him = he		the stone			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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