Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

Honestly, why did the wife hide the kid from her hubby?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: hide · To what, where: kid, hubby

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	7 hide	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 hide	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hide	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	nsubj
7	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kid	det
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 hubby	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hubby	nmod:poss
12	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kid	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · do-support	the wife	the kid		wife's hubby		honestly property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent kid=Patient from hubby=Beneficiary

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

He'd dump it on the road

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	3 dump	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 dump	aux
3	dump	dump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dump	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dump	would	He	it		the road			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme on road=Trajectory

Option 2

He'd give it away

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	3 give	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	would	He	it				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He'd leave it on the road for the wolves

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	3 leave	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 wolves	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolves	det
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would	He	it		the road		for the wolves	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on road=Location

Option 4

He'd drop it in the river

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	3 drop	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drop	aux
3	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drop	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	would	He	it		the river			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in river=Destination

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