Test 8 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edm…

and Edmund just chucked it down a hole??

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Edmund · What happens: chuck down · To what, where: it

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 659 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edmund fetches the drakling and tricks it into the fire-shaft» 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 chucked	cc
2	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chucked	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 chucked	advmod
4	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chucked	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 chucked	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hole	det
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chucked	obj
9	??	??	PUNCT	_	4 chucked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck down	past	Edmund	it					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination hole=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

he tied its legs

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 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	he	its legs					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 2

he hooked its tail to the shaft wall

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 hooked	nsubj
2	hooked	hook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tail	nmod:poss
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hooked	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 wall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
7	shaft	shaft	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wall	compound
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hook	past	he	its tail		the shaft wall			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tail=Theme to wall=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he hooked its tail

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 hooked	nsubj
2	hooked	hook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tail	nmod:poss
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hooked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hook	past	he	its tail					vn rotate-51.9.1-1 «NP V NP.extent»: agent=Theme tail=Extent

Option 4

he cut it

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 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	he	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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