Test 3 · ★ · Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks th…

Bruv, what did the giants reckon should happen to him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv, giants · What happens: do, reckon, happen · To what, where: Bruv

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giants	det
6	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	aux
9	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reckon	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 happen	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	Bruv		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	the giants		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	happen	should	the giants not said here	Bruv	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

eat him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 eat	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 eat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

lock him up in the tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 lock	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 lock	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tower	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tower	det
6	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lock	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock up	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the tower			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a cloud should carry him off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cloud	det
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	aux
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carry	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 carry	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	should	a cloud	him = he					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

hang him from the tall tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hang	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the tall tree			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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