Test 4 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the ma…

Why did Peter need the hangman's cloak, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: need · To what, where: cloak

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 need	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hangman	det
6	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cloak	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 hangman	case
8	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cloak	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past · do-support	Peter	the hangman's cloak and bruv					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cloak=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 · ✓ the right answer

to scare the woodpecker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woodpecker	det
4	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	to-infinitive		the woodpecker					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woodpecker=Experiencer

Option 2

to scare the woodpecker off the magic root

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woodpecker	det
4	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scare	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	8 root	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 root	det
7	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 root	amod
8	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	to-infinitive		the woodpecker				off the magic root	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woodpecker=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

to fetch the nest back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nest	det
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 fetch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch back	to-infinitive		the nest					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme

Option 4

to frighten the bird off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 frighten	mark
2	frighten	frighten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 frighten	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 frighten	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten off	to-infinitive		the bird					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer

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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