Test 11 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses…

Like, did the storms scare Art?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: storms · What happens: scare · To what, where: Art

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1063 «Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses Becuma, Art is banished, and Ireland starves» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	6 scare	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scare	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 storms	det
5	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scare	nsubj
6	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 scare	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	past · do-support	the storms	Art					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus art=Experiencer

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

Nah, he sailed calmly while a storm raged far off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	nsubj
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	4 sailed	advmod
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 storm	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 storm	det
8	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sailed	obl
9	raged	rage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 storm	acl
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 off	advmod
11	off	off	ADV	_	9 raged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	he	a storm				calmly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	rage	participle		a storm not said here				off property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a mile-high wave tossed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 tossed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tossed	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wave	det
4	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 high	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 mile	punct
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wave	amod
7	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tossed	nsubj
8	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tossed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	a high wave	him = he					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, a tall wave nearly sank him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 sank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wave	det
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wave	amod
5	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sank	nsubj
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 sank	advmod
7	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	a tall wave	him = he				nearly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, a mile-high wave tossed him far from the shore of Tara

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 tossed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tossed	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wave	det
4	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 high	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 mile	punct
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wave	amod
7	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tossed	nsubj
8	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tossed	obj
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 tossed	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 shore	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shore	det
13	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tossed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Tara	case
15	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 shore	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	a high wave	him = he		the shore of Tara		far property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product from shore=Material

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