Test 7 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels…

Yo, how strong was little Paul when he was fourteen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, fourteen · To what, where: strong little Paul

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 strong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 strong	advmod
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Paul	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Paul	cop
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Paul	amod
7	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fourteen	nsubj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 fourteen	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fourteen	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fourteen	aux:pass
11	fourteen	fourteen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 fourteen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		strong little Paul					tree rules
2	fourteen	past · passive		strong little Paul					tree rules

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

He could lift a small cart

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	3 lift	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lift	aux
3	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cart	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cart	amod
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lift	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	could	He	a small cart					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme

Option 2

He could pull up oaks like weeds and carry a whole cart of stones home

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	3 pull	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pull	aux
3	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 pull	compound:prt
5	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pull	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 weeds	case
7	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pull	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 carry	cc
9	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pull	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cart	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cart	amod
12	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carry	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 stones	case
14	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cart	nmod
15	home	home	ADV	_	9 carry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	could	He	oaks				like weeds	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Theme
2	carry	infinitive	He not said here	a whole cart of stones				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He was so strong he could tear whole oak trees up by the roots and throw them

The tree, 17 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	4 strong	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 strong	advmod
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tear	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tear	aux
7	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 strong	ccomp
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trees	amod
9	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trees	compound
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tear	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	7 tear	compound:prt
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 roots	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roots	det
14	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tear	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 throw	cc
16	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tear	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 throw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		strong property	tree rules
2	tear up	could	he	whole oak trees	by the roots	tree rules
3	throw	infinitive	he not said here	trees = tree		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He could rip up oaks like weeds

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	3 rip	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rip	aux
3	rip	rip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 rip	compound:prt
5	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rip	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 weeds	case
7	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 oaks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rip up	could	He	oaks				like weeds	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Patient

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