Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the broth…

Mate, what did the huntsman do to the eggs, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: huntsman · What happens: do · To what, where: Mate

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 768 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the brothers save the princess and share the reward» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 huntsman	det
6	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eggs	det
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	7 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the huntsman	Mate				to the eggs	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 lobbed them off the roof, innit

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	2 lobbed	nsubj
2	lobbed	lob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lobbed	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 roof	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roof	det
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lobbed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roof	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lob	past	He	them = they		the roof and innit			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme off roof=Initial_Location

Option 2

Chucked them in a river and watched them float

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chucked	chuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chucked	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chucked	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 watched	cc
7	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Chucked	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 watched	obj
9	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 watched	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	chuck	participle		them = they	a river	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in river=Destination
2	watch	past		them = they		tree rules
3	float	infinitive	them = they not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Split them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Split	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Split	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split up	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Shot them in two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shot	shot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shot	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 two	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Shot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shot	imperative	you not said here	them = they		two			tree rules

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