Test 11 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels…

Fam, what did Paul do to the dwarf in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: do · To what, where: end

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 dwarf	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dwarf	det
9	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Fam				in the end	to the dwarf	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

Locked him in a dark cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Locked	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 cave	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cave	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cave	amod
6	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past		him = he		a dark cave			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

Threw him into the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Threw	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		him = he				into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into river=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tied him to a big tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tied	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 tree	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tied	obl

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

Option 4

Set him free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Set	obj
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Set	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	imperative	you not said here	him = he				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result

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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