Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 1…

how did Little Claus get the horse skin to town

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little · What happens: get · To what, where: horse skin

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 868 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 1: Big Claus kills Little Claus's only horse, and Little Claus climbs onto a shed roof to watch a feast» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	nsubj
4	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Little	flat
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 skin	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skin	compound
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 town	case
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Little	the horse skin				to town	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus

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 put it in a bag on his shoulder

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 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 bag	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bag	det
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 shoulder	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 shoulder	nmod:poss
9	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	he	it		a bag		on his shoulder	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination

Option 2

he tied it to his back

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 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	he	it				to his back	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to back=Co-Patient

Option 3

he got a stranger to help him carry it all the way along the muddy road into the town square

The tree, 20 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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 got	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carry	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 way	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carry	obl:unmarked
13	along	along	ADP	_	16 road	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
15	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 road	amod
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carry	obl
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 square	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 square	det
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 square	compound
20	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	a stranger			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus
2	help	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	carry	infinitive	him = he not said here	stranger	the town square	along the muddy road; all way obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he carried it

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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	he	it					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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