Test 6 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth…

Yeah, what does the zither do to the hangman?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zither · What happens: do

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 zither	det
6	zither	zither	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 hangman	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hangman	det
10	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	the zither					to the hangman	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

Makes him dance like a mad thing until he drops to the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dance	advcl
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Makes	obj
3	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 thing	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dance	obl
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 drops	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drops	nsubj
10	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dance	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	you not said here	him = he			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
2	dance	imperative	you not said here			like a mad thing	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drop	present	he		the ground		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ground=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Makes him sing a little tune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Makes	obj
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Makes	xcomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tune	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tune	amod
6	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		him = he					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	infinitive	him = he not said here	a little tune					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Makes him dance like a mad thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Makes	obj
3	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Makes	xcomp
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 thing	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		him = he					tree rules
2	dance	infinitive	him = he not said here					like a mad thing	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Makes him fall off the gallows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Makes	obj
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Makes	xcomp
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 gallows	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gallows	det
6	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		him = he					tree rules
2	fall off	infinitive	him = he not said here	the gallows					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient gallows=Extent

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