Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pasto…

the guy in the dream got tied up so his blood almost came out lol

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blood · What happens: tie up, come out · To what, where: guy

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 791 «Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pastor's dream of sinners, then an old maid watches children play while an angel carries a dead child to heaven» 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	2 guy	det
2	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tied	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 dream	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dream	det
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guy	nmod
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tied	aux:pass
7	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 tied	compound:prt
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 blood	nmod:poss
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
12	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tied	advcl
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 tied	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past · passive		the guy in the dream					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	come out	past	his blood					almost, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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

ya, they bent him double and tied him up in the cell while the guards watched and laughed, brutal ngl

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ya	ya	INTJ	_	4 bent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ya	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bent	nsubj
4	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bent	obj
6	double	double	ADV	_	4 bent	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tied	cc
8	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bent	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tied	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 tied	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 cell	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cell	det
13	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	obl
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 watched	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 guards	det
16	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 watched	nsubj
17	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tied	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 laughed	cc
19	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 watched	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ngl	punct
21	brutal	brutal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ngl	amod
22	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bent	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend	past	they	him = he		double property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent he=Material
2	tie up	past	they not said here	him = he	the cell		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	watch	past	the guards				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	laugh	past	the guards not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

ya, they bent him double and tied him up so tight his blood almost came out, honestly brutal ngl

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ya	ya	INTJ	_	4 bent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ya	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bent	nsubj
4	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bent	obj
6	double	double	ADV	_	4 bent	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tied	cc
8	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bent	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tied	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 tied	compound:prt
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 tight	advmod
12	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tied	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 blood	nmod:poss
14	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
15	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tight	acl:relcl
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ngl	punct
19	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	20 brutal	advmod
20	brutal	brutal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ngl	amod
21	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bent	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bend	past	they	him = he	double property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent he=Material
2	tie up	past	they not said here	him = he	tight property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	come out	past	his blood		almost, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

ya, they bent him double and tied him, brutal ngl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ya	ya	INTJ	_	4 bent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ya	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bent	nsubj
4	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bent	obj
6	double	double	ADV	_	4 bent	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tied	cc
8	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bent	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tied	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ngl	punct
11	brutal	brutal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ngl	amod
12	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bent	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past	they	him = he				double property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent he=Material
2	tie	past	they not said here	him = he					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

ya, they held him down and he screamed, rough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ya	ya	INTJ	_	4 held	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ya	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 held	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 held	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 screamed	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 screamed	nsubj
9	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 held	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rough	punct
11	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 held	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold down	past	they	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	scream speech: express	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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