Test 5 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Tuan mac Cairill, the salmon's jour…

Lol, what happened to the otter and the wild cat?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1036 «Gods and Fighting Men, Tuan mac Cairill, the salmon's journey and rebirth» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 happened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 otter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 otter	det
7	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cat	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cat	det
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cat	amod
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 otter	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						to the otter and the wild cat	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

They chased him around and dragged his tail

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 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	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 chased	obj
4	around	around	ADV	_	2 chased	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dragged	cc
6	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chased	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tail	nmod:poss
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dragged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase around	past	They	him = he				around property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	drag	past	They not said here	his tail					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They hunted him all over, ripped the reeds

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 hunted	nsubj
2	hunted	hunt	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 hunted	obj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 over	advmod
5	over	over	ADV	_	2 hunted	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ripped	punct
7	ripped	rip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hunted	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reeds	det
9	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ripped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	They	him = he				over property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	rip	past	They not said here	the reeds					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reed=Patient

Option 3

They chased him loads, ripped through the river, and nearly ate him up completely

The tree, 14 words

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 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	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 chased	obj
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chased	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ripped	punct
6	ripped	rip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 loads	acl
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ripped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ate	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ate	cc
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	13 ate	advmod
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chased	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ate	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 ate	compound:prt
16	completely	completely	ADV	_	13 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chase	past	They	him = he		tree rules
2	rip	participle		loads not said here	through the river	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through river=Patient
3	eat up	past	They not said here	him = he	completely, nearly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They chased him loads, ripped through the river

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 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	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 chased	obj
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chased	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ripped	punct
6	ripped	rip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 loads	acl
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	They	him = he					tree rules
2	rip	participle		loads not said here				through the river	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through river=Patient

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