Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

how did Little Claus get out of the sack, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little Claus · What happens: get out · To what, where: sack

This is test 6 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Claus	amod
4	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 sack	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sack	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sack	det
9	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 get	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	past · do-support	Little Claus	the sack			then		tree rules

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

He crawled out, and the drover got in instead

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 crawled	nsubj
2	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 crawled	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 drover	det
7	drover	drover	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crawled	parataxis
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 got	advmod
10	instead	instead	ADV	_	8 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl out	past	He						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get in	past	the drover					instead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

The drover untied it, and Little Claus put a stone in instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drover	det
2	drover	drover	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 untied	nsubj
3	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 untied	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 put	cc
7	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Claus	amod
8	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 put	nsubj
9	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 untied	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stone	det
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	9 put	compound:prt
13	instead	instead	ADV	_	9 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	untie	past	the drover	it					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	put in	past	Little Claus	a stone				instead property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stone=Goal

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He didn't, the drover did, and Little Claus put him in instead

The tree, 13 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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 did	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drover	det
6	drover	drover	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
10	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Claus	amod
11	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 put	nsubj
12	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	12 put	compound:prt
15	instead	instead	ADV	_	12 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not do	past	He			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	the drover			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put in	past	Little Claus	drover	instead property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

Option 4

He didn't, the drover did, and then Little Claus climbed in and sang a psalm while the drover ran off laughing

The tree, 22 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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 did	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drover	det
6	drover	drover	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 climbed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 climbed	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 climbed	advmod
11	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 climbed	nsubj
12	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Little	flat
13	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 climbed	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sang	cc
16	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 climbed	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 psalm	det
18	psalm	psalm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sang	obj
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 ran	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 drover	det
21	drover	drover	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ran	nsubj
22	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sang	advcl
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 ran	compound:prt
24	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 did	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not do	past	He			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	the drover			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	climb	past	Little		then	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	past	Little not said here	a psalm		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=Theme
5	run off	past	the drover			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	laugh	gerund	He not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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