Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old g…

Ok, so what happened to their house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 920 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old grave-stone is remembered, and a new tale begins with an old house and a leaking dragon gutter» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	5 happened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ok	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 happened	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 house	nmod:poss
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						to their house	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 road workers came and tore the whole old house down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 workers	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 workers	compound
3	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tore	cc
6	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 house	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 house	amod
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tore	obj
11	down	down	ADV	_	6 tore	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the road workers						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tore	past	the road workers not said here	the whole old house				down property	tree rules

Option 2

The city council decided to sell it and the new owners tore it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 council	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 council	compound
3	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 decided	nsubj
4	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sell	mark
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 decided	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sell	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tore	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 owners	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 owners	amod
11	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tore	nsubj
12	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 decided	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tore	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 tore	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	decide	past	the city council		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	the city council not said here	council	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	tore down	past	the new owners	council	tree rules

Option 3

The council sold the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 council	det
2	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	nsubj
3	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	the council	the land					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The road guys tore it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guys	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guys	compound
3	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tore	nsubj
4	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tore	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 tore	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore down	past	the road guys	it					tree rules

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