Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's…

Mate, that ruffian who did the robbery, did he get off free?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: that, he · What happens: ruffian, do, get off · To what, where: robbery

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 252 «English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's wicked plot and the lost babes» 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	4 ruffian	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ruffian	punct
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 ruffian	nsubj
4	ruffian	ruffian	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ruffian	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 robbery	det
8	robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ruffian	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 get	compound:prt
14	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 get	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ruffian	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ruffian	present	that		Mate vocative	tree rules
2	do	past		the robbery		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robbery=Eventuality
3	get off	past · do-support	he		free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He was judged to die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 judged	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 judged	aux:pass
3	judged	judge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 die	mark
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 judged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	past · passive		He					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	die	to-infinitive							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

He was judged to die, but he escaped from jail and was never caught again

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 judged	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 judged	aux:pass
3	judged	judge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 die	mark
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 judged	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 escaped	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 escaped	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 escaped	nsubj
9	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 judged	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 jail	case
11	jail	jail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escaped	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 caught	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 caught	aux:pass
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 caught	advmod
15	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 judged	conj
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 caught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	judge	past · passive		He			vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	die	to-infinitive					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	escape	past	he		jail		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from jail=Initial_Location
4	not catch	past · passive				again	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

Option 3

He was let go, no fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux:pass
3	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fine	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 fine	det
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 let	conj

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

Option 4

He was given a fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fine	det
5	fine	fine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		He					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient fine=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/252-pg14241-part19/t12/