Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…

How did they sort him out, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: sort out · To what, where: him

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 974 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep: the china lovers flee the table, and the old Chinaman is broken and riveted» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sort	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sort	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sort	nsubj
4	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sort	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 sort	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sort	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sort	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sort	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	past · do-support	they	him = he			then		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 right answer

they riveted his back and neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 riveted	nsubj
2	riveted	rivet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 riveted	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 neck	cc
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 back	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rivet	past	they	his back and neck					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient

Option 2

they bolted his back and chin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bolted	nsubj
2	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bolted	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 chin	cc
6	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 back	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	past	they	his back and chin					vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent back=Patient

Option 3

they took him to the mender and riveted his back and neck together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mender	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mender	det
6	mender	mender	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 riveted	cc
8	riveted	rivet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 back	nmod:poss
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 riveted	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 neck	cc
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	conj
13	together	together	ADV	_	8 riveted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	they	him = he		the mender			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to mender=Destination
2	rivet	past	they not said here	his back and neck				together property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient

Option 4

they riveted his back and neck and painted over all the cracks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 riveted	nsubj
2	riveted	rivet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 riveted	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 neck	cc
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 back	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 painted	cc
8	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 riveted	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 cracks	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 cracks	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cracks	det
12	cracks	crack	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rivet	past	they	his back and neck					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient
2	paint	participle	they not said here			all cracks			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent over crack=Destination

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