Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little…

Why did Little Claus go back by the land, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little Claus · What happens: go back

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 871 «Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little Claus tricks Great Claus into the river, and an old man begins a story from the teapot» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Claus	amod
4	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 land	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past · do-support	Little Claus					by the land and bruv	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Cos the sea-people chased him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 people	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 people	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sea	punct
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chased	nsubj
6	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chased	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 chased	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase out	past	the sea people	him = he					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Cos he wanted to see his mum first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cos						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cos not said here	Cos's mum				first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus

Option 3

Cos the river was too cold for swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 cold	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cold	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 swimming	case
8	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the river					for swimming; cold property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos it saved him half a mile, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 saved	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saved	nsubj
3	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saved	obj
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 mile	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mile	det
7	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saved	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 obviously	punct
9	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	3 saved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	it	half mile	him = he			obviously property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary mile=Theme

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