Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bachelor's Nightcap: old Anthony die…

Did the mayor get salty about the cap?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mayor · What happens: do, get

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 918 «Andersen's Tales, The Bachelor's Nightcap: old Anthony dies alone, and his tears are found in a nightcap» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mayor	det
3	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
5	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 cap	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 salty	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get	present	the mayor					salty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 ripped it off in a panic

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 ripped	nsubj
2	ripped	rip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ripped	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 ripped	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 panic	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 panic	det
7	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rip off	past	He	it		a panic			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

He wore it proudly to the town hall the next morning

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 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wore	obj
4	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	2 wore	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hall	compound
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 morning	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 morning	amod
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	He	it			morning	to the town hall; proudly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He called the priest to bless it before he dared touch it at all

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 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 priest	det
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bless	mark
6	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bless	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 dared	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dared	nsubj
10	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bless	advcl
11	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dared	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 touch	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 touch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	call	past	He	the priest		tree rules
2	bless	to-infinitive	He not said here	priest		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	dare	past	he			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	touch	infinitive	he not said here	priest	all	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 4

He threw it into the fire

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	He	it				into the fire result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into fire=Result

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