Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the…

what did the master do to the dogs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: master · What happens: do

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 670 «Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the king adopts the boy, and the sword slides home» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 dogs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dogs	det
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the master					to the dogs	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

killed every one of the dogs and then gave the old one a bowl of bread for his supper

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 killed	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 dogs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dogs	det
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 gave	advmod
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 killed	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bowl	det
14	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 bread	case
16	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bowl	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 supper	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 supper	nmod:poss
19	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past		every one of the dogs					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	give	past		the old one			then	for his supper	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Recipient bowl=Theme for supper=Asset

Option 2

killed all except the old one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 killed	obj
3	except	except	ADP	_	6 one	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 killed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past		all				except the old one	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme

Option 3

killed every one of the young dogs and let only the old one live out his days

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 killed	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dogs	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dogs	amod
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 killed	conj
10	only	only	ADV	_	13 one	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obj
14	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 live	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 days	nmod:poss
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 live	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	kill	past		every one of the young dogs		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	let	infinitive		the old one		tree rules
3	live out	infinitive	the old one not said here		day	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

killed them all but the old one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 killed	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 them	nmod:unmarked
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 one	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 killed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past		them = they					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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