Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a…

lol the robbers got wrecked with a stick, no cap

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: wreck · To what, where: robbers

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 773 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a stick and a horse free the maiden, then Dummling's goose gathers a crowd» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 wrecked	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrecked	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wrecked	aux:pass
5	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 stick	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stick	det
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrecked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cap	det
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	past · passive		the robbers				with a stick and no cap	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with stick=Instrument

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

yeah, the hero whacked em good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 whacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 whacked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hero	det
4	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whacked	nsubj
5	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	em	em	ADV	_	5 whacked	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 whacked	xcomp

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the hero beat em up proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 beat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beat	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hero	det
4	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	nsubj
5	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beat	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 beat	compound:prt
8	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 beat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat up	present	the hero	em = they				properly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 3

yeah, the hero beat em all up with his stick, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 beat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beat	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hero	det
4	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	nsubj
5	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beat	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 em	det
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 beat	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 stick	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 stick	nmod:poss
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 proper	punct
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stick	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat up	past	the hero	em = they				with hero's stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with stick=Instrument

Option 4

nah, the robbers got away and the hero got wrecked by them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wrecked	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hero	det
9	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wrecked	nsubj:pass
10	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wrecked	aux:pass
11	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 got	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wrecked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get away	past	the robbers					away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wreck	past · passive	robbers = robber	the hero					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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