Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

so the drover got drowned for real?

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

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 870 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 81: Great Claus is beaten out of town, kills his own grandmother, and nearly drowns Little Claus, who escapes with a drover's cattle» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 drowned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drover	det
3	drover	drover	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drowned	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drowned	aux:pass
5	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 real	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drowned	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 drowned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past · passive		the drover				for real	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Yeah, Great Claus chucked him in, not knowing it was him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chucked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chucked	nsubj
4	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Great	flat
5	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chucked	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	5 chucked	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knowing	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 knowing	advmod
10	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 chucked	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 him	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 him	cop
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knowing	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	chuck in	past	Great	him = he	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	not know	gerund	Great not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	it	Great	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he got out before Great Claus saw him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 saw	mark
7	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Claus	flat
8	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	past	he					out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	Great Claus	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

Nah, he swam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 swam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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