Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen: the false huntsm…

the peas thing, how did the girls get past it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girls · What happens: get · To what, where: thing

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 776 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen: the false huntsmen are unmasked and the king weds his true bride» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thing	compound
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 get	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girls	det
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
10	past	past	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the girls			thing			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past it=Destination

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

they stomped firm so no peas moved, and the guard was fooled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stomped	nsubj
2	stomped	stomp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stomped	xcomp
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 moved	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 peas	det
6	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 moved	nsubj
7	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stomped	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fooled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fooled	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 guard	det
11	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fooled	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fooled	aux:pass
13	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stomped	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stomp	past	they		firm property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move	past	no peas			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	fool	past · passive		the guard		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

they stomped firm so no peas moved under their feet at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stomped	nsubj
2	stomped	stomp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stomped	xcomp
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 moved	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 peas	det
6	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 moved	nsubj
7	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stomped	advcl
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 moved	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stomp	past	they					firm property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move	past	no peas			peas's feet		at all	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme under foot=Source at all=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they stomped firm so no peas moved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stomped	nsubj
2	stomped	stomp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stomped	xcomp
4	so	so	ADV	_	2 stomped	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 peas	det
6	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stomped	obj
7	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 peas	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stomp	past	they	no peas				firm property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient
2	move	participle		no peas not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they stepped gently to dodge peas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stepped	nsubj
2	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gently	gently	ADV	_	2 stepped	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dodge	mark
5	dodge	dodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stepped	advcl
6	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dodge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	past	they					gently property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dodge	to-infinitive	they not said here	peas					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent pea=Location

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