Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild…

Dead cool, what did the boy lose down there?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, lose · To what, where: boy

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 784 «Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild man is caged, a boy frees him» 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	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 cool	advmod
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cool	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cool	conj
9	down	down	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lose	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the boy					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
2	lose	present				there			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

the golden apple he had been carrying all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 apple	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 apple	amod
3	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carrying	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carrying	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 carrying	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 carrying	aux
7	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carrying	obl:unmarked
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 carrying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · perfect · progressive	the golden apple				day	long property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

his favourite golden ball that his father gave him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ball	nmod:poss
2	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ball	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ball	amod
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 gave	obj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ball	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	his father	his favourite golden ball	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his golden ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ball	nmod:poss
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ball	amod
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

his silver coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 coin	nmod:poss
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coin	compound
3	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coin		his = he						nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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