Test 10 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels…

Dude, how did the dwarf get back at Tree Comber?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: do, get back · To what, where: dwarf

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 711 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels is caught and wed, then Paul gathers three strong friends and finds a dragon's captive» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwarf	det
6	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	obj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 dwarf	parataxis
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 Comber	case
10	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Comber	compound
11	Comber	Comber	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 back	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Dude	the dwarf					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Eventuality
2	get back	infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 ate the whole stew and then tied all of them up to the trees

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stew	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stew	amod
5	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tied	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 tied	advmod
8	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 tied	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 all	nmod
12	up	up	ADP	_	8 tied	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 trees	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trees	det
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	the whole stew					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stew=Patient
2	tie up	past	He not said here	all			then	to the trees	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent all=Patient to tree=Co-Patient

Option 2

He threw the pot at Tree Comber

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pot	det
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 Comber	case
6	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Comber	compound
7	Comber	Comber	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	He	the pot		Tree Comber			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pot=Theme at comber=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He ate the whole stew and ran off

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stew	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stew	amod
5	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	the whole stew					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stew=Patient
2	run off	past	He not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He tied Tree Comber to a tree

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	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Comber	compound
4	Comber	comber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	He	Tree Comber				to a tree	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent comber=Patient to tree=Co-Patient

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