Test 10 · ★ · Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved,…

ok but how did Wilhelm get her?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wilhelm · What happens: get · To what, where: her

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 361 «Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved, and Mignon dances» 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	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 get	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 ok	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ok	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Wilhelm	her = she					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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

he traded his old horse

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 traded	nsubj
2	traded	trade	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 horse	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 traded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	past	he	his old horse					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

paid for her clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 clothes	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 clothes	nmod:poss
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past						for her clothes	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for clothes=Theme

Option 3

he paid a coin or two

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 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coin	det
4	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 two	cc
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 coin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he	a coin					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he bought her

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 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	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 bought	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	he		her = she				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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.

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