Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Darning Needle: the proud needle is…

what did the robbers get up to, bro?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: robbers · What happens: do, get up

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 813 «Andersen's Tales, The Darning Needle: the proud needle is tossed into a gutter, sails in an egg-shell, and is crushed by a cart.» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 get	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 bro	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get up	present	the robbers					to bro result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bro=Result

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

they burned the barn and ran off, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 barn	det
4	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burned	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 burned	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 ran	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burned	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	they	the barn				mate vocative	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent barn=Theme
2	run off	past	they not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

killed three people and the dog, and drank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 people	nummod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 killed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dog	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drank	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drank	cc
9	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 killed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past		three people and the dog					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	drink	past							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

killed three people, the dog too, and then they drank till they were sick, mate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 people	nummod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 killed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dog	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	appos
7	too	too	ADV	_	1 killed	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drank	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 drank	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 drank	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 drank	nsubj
12	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 killed	conj
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 sick	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sick	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sick	cop
16	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mate	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sick	punct
18	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drank	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past		three people			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	drink	past	people	sick mate	then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	people			sick property	tree rules

Option 4

they killed three people and the dog then drank all the wine in the hall, bruv

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 people	nummod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 killed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drank	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drank	nsubj
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 drank	advmod
9	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 wine	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wine	det
12	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drank	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hall	det
15	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drank	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct
17	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	they	three people					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	drink	past	the dog	all wine		the hall and bruv	then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient

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