Test 4 · ★ · Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canut…

So what did Canute do to sort them out?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Canute · What happens: do, sort out · To what, where: them

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 342 «Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canute orders the sea to stop and gets soaked» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	Canute	Canute	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sort	mark
7	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 do	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sort	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 sort	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Canute						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	sort out	to-infinitive	Canute not said here	them = they					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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

Moved his chair to the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 chair	nmod:poss
3	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Moved	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 hill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past		his chair		the hill			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent chair=Theme to hill=Trajectory

Option 2

Parked his chair right down by the water's edge and waited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 chair	nmod:poss
3	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Parked	obj
4	right	right	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	1 Parked	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 edge	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 water	case
10	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Parked	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 waited	cc
12	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Parked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	park	participle		his chair				by the water's edge; down property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chair=Theme by edge=Destination
2	wait	past							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Ordered his servants to carry his chair up the cliff to the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 servants	nmod:poss
3	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ordered	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 carry	mark
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ordered	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chair	nmod:poss
7	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	10 cliff	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cliff	det
10	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 castle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past		his servants					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic
2	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	his servants not said here	his chair		the castle		up the cliff	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chair=Theme to castle=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Parked his chair by the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 chair	nmod:poss
3	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Parked	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Parked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	park	participle		his chair				by the water	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chair=Theme by water=Destination

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