Test 9 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels…

Bro, what did Stone Crusher do with those stones?

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

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
5	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
6	Crusher	Crusher	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Stone	flat
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Stone	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 stones	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 stones	det
10	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Stone					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Eventuality
2	do	present	Stone not said here					with that stones	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Ground them to powder like nuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ground	ground	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ground	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 powder	mark
4	powder	powder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ground	xcomp
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 nuts	case
6	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 powder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ground	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	powder	to-infinitive	you not said here					like nuts	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Carried them to the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Carried	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past		them = they		the river			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to river=Destination

Option 3

Crushed them into powder and then fed it to the horses in the stable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Crushed	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 powder	case
4	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crushed	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fed	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fed	advmod
7	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Crushed	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fed	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 horses	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horses	det
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fed	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 stable	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stable	det
14	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	past		them = they				into powder result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into powder=Result
2	feed	past		powder	the horses	the stable	then		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to horse=Recipient

Option 4

Ground them up in his hands until they were fine as sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ground	ground	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ground	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Ground	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ground	obl
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 fine	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fine	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ground	advcl
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 sand	case
12	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ground up	imperative	you not said here	them = they		his hands			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in hand=Destination
2	is	past	hands = hand					as sand; fine property	tree rules

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