Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the footba…

Did Tom just nick the cart and fight with it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: nick, fight · To what, where: cart

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 242 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the football crowd, four robbers and a tinker, then kills a giant» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nick	aux
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nick	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 nick	advmod
4	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cart	det
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nick	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fight	cc
8	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nick	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fight	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 nick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · do-support	Tom	the cart					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Patient
2	fight	infinitive	Tom not said here					with cart	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-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

Yeah, he unhitched the horse and flipped the whole cart over as a shield

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 unhitched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 unhitched	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unhitched	nsubj
4	unhitched	unhitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unhitched	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flipped	cc
8	flipped	flip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unhitched	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cart	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cart	amod
11	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flipped	obj
12	over	over	ADV	_	8 flipped	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 shield	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 shield	det
15	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unhitch	past	he	the horse					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	flip	past	he not said here	the whole cart				as a shield; over property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he flipped it upside down for a shield and then used the wheel as a weapon

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 flipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flipped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flipped	nsubj
4	flipped	flip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flipped	obj
6	upside	upside	ADV	_	7 down	advmod
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 flipped	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 shield	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shield	det
10	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flipped	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 used	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 used	advmod
13	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flipped	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wheel	det
15	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 used	obj
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 weapon	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 weapon	det
18	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flip	past	he	it				for a shield; down property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	use	past	he not said here	the wheel			then	as a weapon	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent wheel=Duration as weapon=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he flipped it upside down for a shield

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 flipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flipped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flipped	nsubj
4	flipped	flip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flipped	obj
6	upside	upside	ADV	_	7 down	advmod
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 flipped	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 shield	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shield	det
10	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flip	past	he	it				for a shield; down property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he tipped it over to block the blows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tipped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tipped	nsubj
4	tipped	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tipped	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	4 tipped	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 block	mark
8	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tipped	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blows	det
10	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 block	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip over	past	he	it					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	block	to-infinitive	he not said here	the blows					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer blow=Theme

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