Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a w…

Did his dad almost whack him or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, whack · To what, where: dad, him

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 749 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom talks his way out and goes home» 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	Did	do	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 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 whack	advmod
5	whack	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 whack	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 whack	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		his dad					tree rules
2	whack	present		him = he				almost property	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

Nah, the dad whacked the wolf right on the head with a big stick

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 whacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dad	det
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whacked	nsubj
5	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whacked	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	11 head	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 head	det
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whacked	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 stick	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stick	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stick	amod
15	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past	the dad	the wolf		the head		with a big stick	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient with stick=Instrument

Option 2

Nah, the dad whacked the wolf with an axe and saved Tom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 whacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dad	det
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whacked	nsubj
5	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whacked	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 axe	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 axe	det
10	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whacked	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saved	cc
12	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 whacked	conj
13	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past	the dad	the wolf				with a axe	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient with axe=Instrument
2	save	past	the dad not said here	Tom					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Theme

Option 3

Yup, he whacked the cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whacked	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 whacked	nsubj
4	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whacked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past	he	the cow				Yup vocative	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the dad whacked the wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 whacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dad	det
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whacked	nsubj
5	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whacked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past	the dad	the wolf					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient

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