Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bell, part 11: the king's son walks…

did the poor boy get scratched up by the thorns?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thorns · What happens: scratch up · To what, where: poor boy

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 800 «Andersen's Tales, The Bell, part 11: the king's son walks on alone, deeper into the wood after the sound» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scratched	nsubj:pass
5	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 scratched	aux:pass
6	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 scratched	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 thorns	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thorns	det
10	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scratched	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scratched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch up	present · passive	the thorns	the poor boy					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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

yes, his arms and legs were torn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 torn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 arms	nmod:poss
4	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 torn	nsubj:pass
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 legs	cc
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arms	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 torn	aux:pass
8	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	past · passive		his arms and legs					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

yeah, his hands, face, feet and legs all bled from the thorns

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 face	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 face	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 face	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 face	punct
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bled	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 feet	punct
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 face	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 legs	cc
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feet	conj
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 bled	advmod
12	bled	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 thorns	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thorns	det
15	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	face		his hands						tree rules
2	bleed	past	face and feet and legs			the thorns		all property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from thorn=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, his face and arms were scratched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 face	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 face	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scratched	nsubj:pass
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 arms	cc
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 face	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scratched	aux:pass
8	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	past · passive		his face and arms					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, his hands, face and feet bled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 face	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 face	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 face	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 face	punct
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 feet	cc
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 face	conj
9	bled	bleed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 face	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleed	participle		face and feet not said here					vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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