Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet,…

Ngl, what did the pin and needle do at the inn?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl, pin · What happens: do · To what, where: inn

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 738 «Grimm's Tales, The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet, part 14: the goose-girl is avenged, then the friends drive to visit Mr Korbes» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
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 pin	det
6	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 needle	cc
8	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pin	conj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 inn	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 inn	det
12	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the pin and needle			the inn			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

Poked him, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poked	poke	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 Poked	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Poked	punct
4	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 Poked	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	past		him = he					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Instrument

Option 2

Pricked his hanky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hanky	nmod:poss
3	hanky	hanky	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prick	past		his hanky					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hanky=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They pricked the landlord in his hanky and chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pricked	nsubj
2	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 landlord	det
4	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pricked	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hanky	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hanky	nmod:poss
7	hanky	hanky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pricked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 chair	cc
9	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hanky	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prick	past	They	the landlord		his hanky and chair			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer landlord=Patient

Option 4

They pinched the maid in the kitchen and the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pinched	nsubj
2	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maid	det
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pinched	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 kitchen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kitchen	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pinched	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hall	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kitchen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	past	They	the maid		the kitchen and the hall			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Theme

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