Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, part 47: the soldier'…

bro did the peas actually work for the king?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, peas · What happens: do, work

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 771 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, part 47: the soldier's pipe calls the manikin, and a queen's child becomes a raven» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peas	det
4	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 work	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 work	advmod
6	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	bro						tree rules
2	work	present	the peas					for the king; actually property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for king=Beneficiary

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

yeah, they worked great, the king's men followed them straight to the soldier's door

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 worked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worked	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 followed	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 men	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 followed	nsubj
11	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 followed	obj
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 door	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 soldier	det
16	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 door	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 soldier	case
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	they					to the soldier's door; great property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	follow	past	the king's men	them = they					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

nah, the manikin scattered loads of them everywhere in the whole town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 scattered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 manikin	det
4	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scattered	nsubj
5	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scattered	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loads	nmod
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 scattered	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 town	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 town	amod
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	past	the manikin	loads of loads		the whole town		everywhere property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent load=Theme in town=Destination

Option 3

nah, the wind blew them away fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 blew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	nsubj
5	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blew	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 blew	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 blew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow away	past	the wind	them = they				away, fast property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, the manikin scattered loads everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 scattered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 manikin	det
4	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scattered	nsubj
5	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scattered	obj
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 scattered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	past	the manikin	loads				everywhere property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent load=Theme

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