Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99…

fr what did the two sisters do to the feathers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: do · To what, where: two sisters

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 fr	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sisters	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sisters	nummod
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 feathers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feathers	det
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	fr	the two sisters					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Eventuality
2	do	present	fr					to the feathers	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

threw them in the marsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	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 threw	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 marsh	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 marsh	det
5	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threw	obl

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

Option 2

tore them into tiny bits and tossed them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tore	tore	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 tore	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 bits	case
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bits	amod
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tore	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tossed	cc
7	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 tore	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tossed	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 tossed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past		them = they		tiny bits			tree rules
2	toss away	past		bits = bit				away property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

tore them into bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tore	tore	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 tore	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 bits	case
4	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past		them = they		bits			tree rules

Option 4

sold them at the market

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 market	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 market	det
5	market	market	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 market			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme at market=Asset

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