Test 10 · ★ · Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a…

Ok, what did he yell to scare off the guys outside?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: yell, scare off · To what, where: guys

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 742 «Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a unicorn and a boar, and frightens off his foes» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	6 yell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 yell	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 yell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yell	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 yell	nsubj
6	yell	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 scare	mark
8	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 yell	xcomp
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 scare	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 guys	det
11	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scare	obj
12	outside	outside	ADV	_	8 scare	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 yell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past · do-support	he						tree rules
2	scare off	to-infinitive	he not said here	the guys				outside property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus guy=Experiencer

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

"Be gone"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 gone	cop
3	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	imperative	you not said here					gone property	tree rules

Option 2

"Stop now"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
2	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Stop	advmod
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	imperative	you not said here				now		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"I smote seven at one blow"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 smote	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 smote	nsubj
3	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 smote	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 blow	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 blow	nummod
7	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smote	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 blow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smite in a quote	past	I	seven		one blow			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus seven=Experiencer

Option 4

"I struck nine with one swing"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 struck	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 struck	nsubj
3	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 struck	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 swing	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 swing	nummod
7	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 struck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike in a quote	past	I	nine				with one swing	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nine=Patient with swing=Instrument

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