Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and h…

How did the lord sus out her house, mate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: lord sus

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 263 «English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and her father is found» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sus	det
4	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sus	compound
5	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 house	nmod:poss
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	vocative
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the lord sus					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sus=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

A servant told him the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a servant	the way	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic

Option 2

He sent his best hunters to track her through the whole country for many weeks

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	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hunters	nmod:poss
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 hunters	amod
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 track	mark
7	track	track	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 track	obj
9	through	through	ADP	_	12 country	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 country	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 country	amod
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 weeks	case
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 weeks	amod
15	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	He	his best hunters		the whole country	week		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Theme
2	track	to-infinitive	He not said here	her = she					vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

She told him herself at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 told	appos
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dawn	case
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	She		him = he		dawn		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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

He followed her to the forest

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	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	He	her = she		the forest			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme to forest=Trajectory

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