Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little…

Did Great Claus get the sea-cattle or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Great · What happens: get · To what, where: sea cattle

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Great	flat
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cattle	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cattle	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sea	punct
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 cattle	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Great	the sea cattle					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cattle=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he sank straight to the bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sank	nsubj
4	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 bottom	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	he					to the bottom	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, loads of them, he was buzzing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loads	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 buzzing	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 buzzing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 buzzing	aux
9	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 loads	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past · progressive	he						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, he brought them all back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 brought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 back	advmod
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 brought	advmod
8	home	home	ADV	_	4 brought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	he	them = they				home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Nah, the oxen ran off somewhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oxen	det
4	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the oxen					somewhere property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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