Test 8 · ★ · Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14:…

What's Jens's first move against the bishop?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: first move, Jens · What happens: be, move

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 803 «Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14: the widow's son returns, and Olaf Hase breaks into the church on Christmas night» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	Jens	Jens	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 move	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Jens	case
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 move	amod
6	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	against	against	ADP	_	9 bishop	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bishop	det
9	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 move	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Jens's first move against the bishop						tree rules
2	move		Jens					against the bishop	nom move «act intransitive»: poss=agent against=obl

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 right answer

He takes him to court, both sorts of court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 court	case
5	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sorts	punct
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sorts	det
8	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 court	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 court	case
10	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sorts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	He	him = he		court and both sorts of court			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to court=Destination
2	sort			court					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

He takes him to both the church court and the king's court, double-quick, innit

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 court	case
5	both	both	CCONJ	_	8 court	cc:preconj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 court	det
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 court	compound
8	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 court	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 court	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 court	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 quick	punct
15	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 quick	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 double	punct
17	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 court	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 innit	punct
19	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 takes	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	He	him = he		the church court and the king's court			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to court=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He drags him to church court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drags	nsubj
2	drags	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drags	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 court	case
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 court	compound
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drags	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	present	He	him = he		church court			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to court=Destination

Option 4

He takes the bishop to court, both sorts, and gets his cousin to back him up

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bishop	det
4	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 court	case
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bishop	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sorts	punct
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 sorts	det
9	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bishop	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gets	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gets	cc
12	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cousin	nmod:poss
14	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gets	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 back	mark
16	back	back	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gets	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 back	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 back	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	present	He	the bishop and both sorts	court	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bishop=Theme to court=Destination
2	get	present	He not said here	his cousin		tree rules
3	back up	to-infinitive	his cousin not said here	him = he		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent

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