Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win the…

fr, what did the bear get told if he didn't come to the nest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: tell, not come · To what, where: fr, nest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 735 «Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win their war, and a frog bargains with a princess» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bear	det
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 come	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 come	advmod
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 nest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nest	det
16	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive · do-support		fr					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not come a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	he			the nest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nest=Initial_Location

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'd be eaten

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 eaten	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 eaten	aux:pass
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would · passive		he					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

his ribs would be broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ribs	nmod:poss
2	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 broken	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	would · passive		his ribs					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

every rib would be broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 rib	det
2	rib	rib	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	would · passive		every rib					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

his legs broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 legs	nmod:poss
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 broken	nsubj:pass
3	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle · passive		his legs					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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