Test 5 · ★ · The Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Hero Makoma, part…

Did Makoma just beat the giant up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Makoma · What happens: beat up · To what, where: giant

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1135 «The Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Hero Makoma, part 1: a strong boy beats crocodiles and a giant» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beat	aux
2	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 beat	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 beat	advmod
4	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	4 beat	compound:prt
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 beat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat up	past · do-support	Makoma	the giant					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=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

Yeah, he hit him hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	obj
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 hit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	he	him = he				hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He knocked him so small he begged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knocked	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	nsubj
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	He	him = he				small property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	beg speech: request	past	he						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, he just wrestled him for a bit and then let him go free

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wrestled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrestled	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wrestled	advmod
5	wrestled	wrestle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrestled	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 bit	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrestled	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 let	advmod
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wrestled	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wrestle	past	he	him = he		for a bit	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	let	infinitive	he not said here	him = he	then		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	him = he not said here			free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he just talked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 talked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talked	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 talked	advmod
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	he						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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