Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

Lol, what did Great Claus do to all his horses?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Great

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
5	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
6	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Great	flat
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 horses	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 horses	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 horses	nmod:poss
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Great					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Eventuality
2	do	present						to Great's horses	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

Fed them grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fed	obj
3	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past		them = they					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient grain=Theme

Option 2

Sold them at the fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sold	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 fair	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fair	det
5	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past		them = they		the fair			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme at fair=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Knocked them on the head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Knocked	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Knocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past		them = they		the head			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on head=Destination

Option 4

Knocked them on the head one by one and skinned them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Knocked	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Knocked	obl
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Knocked	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 one	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 skinned	cc
10	skinned	skin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Knocked	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 skinned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past		them = they		the head			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination one=Theme
2	skin	past		them = they					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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