Test 5 · ★ · Brave Deeds, The Soldier and the Swede, part 7: a soldier…

Sus, what did Pocahontas do for John Smith?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pocahontas · What happens: do · To what, where: Sus

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 347 «Brave Deeds, The Soldier and the Swede, part 7: a soldier spares a wounded enemy, and English heroes and a little Indian girl show courage» 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Pocahontas	Pocahontas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sus	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 Smith	case
8	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Smith	compound
9	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Pocahontas	Sus				for John Smith	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

Held his head to protect him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Held	hold	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 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Held	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 protect	mark
5	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Held	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past		his head					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	protect	to-infinitive			him = he				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 2

She ran away

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	She					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hugged his head to save him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hugged	hug	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 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hugged	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 save	mark
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hugged	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past		his head					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Co-Agent
2	save	to-infinitive		him = he					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Pulled him from the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pulled	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past		him = he		the water			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from water=Initial_Location

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