Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds o…

ngl, what did the king do to the constable's kids?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, king · What happens: do

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 931 «Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds of the dead and the aunt who lived for the theatre» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 kids	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 constable	det
10	constable	constable	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kids	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 constable	case
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the king					to the constable's kids	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

put them in cold cells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 put	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cells	case
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cells	amod
5	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	them = they		cold cells			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in cell=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

put them in iron cages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 put	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cages	case
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cages	compound
5	cages	cage	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	them = they		iron cages			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in cage=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

sent them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	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 sent	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	past		them = they				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

killed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	killed	kill	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 killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past		them = they					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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