Test 8 · ★ · Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a…

Wait, what was the king's sneaky plan to get rid of him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, get · To what, where: sneaky plan

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 plan	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 plan	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 plan	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plan	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plan	amod
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 plan	acl
12	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 get	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rid	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the king's sneaky plan		tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	you not said here		rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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

Exile him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exile	exile	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Exile	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exile	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Kill him quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kill	obj
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Kill	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	imperative	you not said here	him = he				quietly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ship him off across the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ship	ship	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ship	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Ship	compound:prt
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ship	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ship off	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the sea			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Send him off to the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Send	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Send	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 north	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 north	det
6	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the north			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to north=Destination

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