Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the footba…

Did the giant beg for mercy at the end, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: giant beg, end

This is test 9 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beg	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beg	amod
4	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 mercy	case
6	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	1 Did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the giant beg			at the end	for mercy	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beg=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he begged for a drink first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 drink	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 drink	det
7	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 begged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he					for a drink; first property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for drink=Topic

Option 2

Nah, he begged for his life first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 life	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 begged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he					for his life; first property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for life=Topic

Option 3

Yeah, he begged for a drink first and then tried to run off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 drink	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 drink	det
7	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 begged	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tried	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 tried	advmod
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 run	mark
13	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	xcomp
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 run	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he		for a drink; first property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for drink=Topic
2	try	past	he not said here	then		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	run off not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he cried out for water and begged Tom to let him live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 cried	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 begged	cc
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 begged	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 let	mark
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begged	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	he			for water	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for water=Recipient
2	beg speech: request	past	he not said here		Tom		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient
3	let	to-infinitive	he not said here	Tom			tree rules
4	live	infinitive	Tom not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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