Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…

Did Soren's dad get off that wooden horse easy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: do, get off · To what, where: wooden horse

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» 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	Soren	Soren	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dad	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Soren	case
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	9 horse	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 horse	det
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	amod
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get off	present	Soren's dad	that wooden horse				easy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus

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

yeah, he got off easy but then Marie kicked the horse anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 got	compound:prt
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 kicked	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 kicked	advmod
9	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 kicked	nsubj
10	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kicked	obj
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	10 kicked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get off	past	he					easy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	kick	past	Marie	the horse			then	anyway property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horse=Patient

Option 2

nah, the servants had to lift him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lift	mark
7	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lift	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the servants						tree rules
2	lift	to-infinitive	the servants not said here	him = he					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

nah, Marie had to kick off and shout at the grooms to get him down

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kick	mark
6	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 kick	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shout	cc
9	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 grooms	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grooms	det
12	grooms	groom	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shout	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shout	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	obj
16	down	down	ADP	_	14 get	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Marie			tree rules
2	kick off	to-infinitive	Marie not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	shout speech: express	present	Marie not said here		at the grooms	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get down	to-infinitive	Marie not said here	Marie		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, Marie had to kick off to get him down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kick	mark
6	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 kick	compound:prt
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 kick	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 get	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	Marie		tree rules
2	kick off	to-infinitive	Marie not said here		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	get down	to-infinitive	Marie not said here	Marie	tree rules

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