Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid'…

bet the butler was well gutted, what did the girl do to his shutters?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, girl · What happens: bet, gut, do · To what, where: butler

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 241 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid's spell sends the men into the pond until her bird-husband comes to take her away» 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	bet	bet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 butler	det
3	butler	butler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 gutted	advmod
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 bet	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bet	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 shutters	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shutters	nmod:poss
15	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 do	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bet	imperative	you not said here			vn risk-94 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	gut	past · passive		the butler	well property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
3	do	past · do-support	the girl		to his shutters	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

made them shake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 made	obj
3	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		them = they					tree rules
2	shake	infinitive	them = they not said here						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

made them bang all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 made	obj
3	bang	bang	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 made	xcomp
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 made	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		them = they			day	bang property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 3

made them rattle till dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 made	obj
3	rattle	rattle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 made	xcomp
4	till	till	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rattle	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		them = they					tree rules
2	rattle	infinitive	them = they not said here				dawn		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

made them clap all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 made	obj
3	clap	clap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 made	xcomp
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		them = they					tree rules
2	clap	infinitive	them = they not said here				night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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