Test 1 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the ma…

Oi, how did Peter get the root off that woodpecker, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: get · To what, where: root

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 687 «Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the magic root, steals the gold, and Lucia gets a suitor» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 root	det
8	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 woodpecker	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 woodpecker	det
11	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 woodpecker	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Oi	the root				off that woodpecker and mate	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer root=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 · ← Mova's choice

he stole the root off her with a red cloak and a lot of shouting

The tree, 15 words

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 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 root	det
4	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 cloak	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cloak	det
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cloak	amod
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lot	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lot	det
13	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cloak	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 shouting	case
15	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	he	the root				off her = she; with a red cloak and a lot of shouting	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent root=Theme off she=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he scared her with the red cloak

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 scared	nsubj
2	scared	scare	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 scared	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 cloak	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cloak	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cloak	amod
7	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	past	he	her = she				with the red cloak	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

Option 3

he bribed her with some nuts

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 bribed	nsubj
2	bribed	bribe	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 bribed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 nuts	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 nuts	det
6	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bribed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bribe	past	he	her = she				with some nuts	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

he scared her off with the red cloak he borrowed from the hangman

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 scared	nsubj
2	scared	scare	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 scared	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 scared	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 cloak	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cloak	det
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cloak	amod
8	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scared	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 borrowed	nsubj
10	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cloak	acl:relcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 hangman	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hangman	det
13	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 borrowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare off	past	he	her = she				with the red cloak	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
2	borrow	past	he	the red cloak not said here		the hangman			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme from hangman=Source

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