Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks th…

Was the gold under his pillow, like, a proper trick?

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

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 780 «Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks the witch, her maid and the lady, and turns the tables on them with salad» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pillow	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gold	det
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 pillow	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pillow	nmod:poss
6	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	6 pillow	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trick	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 trick	det
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trick	amod
12	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pillow	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pillow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				his pillow and a proper trick			tree rules

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

no, the giants hid the gold beneath the pillow himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giants	det
4	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hid	nsubj
5	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gold	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	obj
8	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	10 pillow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pillow	det
10	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	obl
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the giants	the gold		the pillow		himself = he obl	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gold=Patient beneath pillow=Location

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

yes, the heart did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heart	det
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj

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

Option 3

yes, the bird's heart did it by casting a spell on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heart	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 bird	case
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	obj
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 casting	mark
10	casting	cast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 did	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 spell	det
12	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 casting	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 casting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the bird's heart	bird					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	cast	gerund	the bird's heart not said here	a spell				on heart	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on he=Destination

Option 4

yes, the witch did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj

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

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