Test 1 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian ou…

Yo, did the raven actually peck the first two brothers blind?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: raven · What happens: do, peck · To what, where: raven

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 raven	det
5	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 peck	advmod
7	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 raven	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brothers	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 brothers	amod
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 brothers	nummod
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 blind	nsubj
12	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 peck	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the raven					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Eventuality
2	peck	infinitive	the raven not said here					actually property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Aye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Nah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, it nearly blinded them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 blinded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blinded	nsubj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 blinded	advmod
5	blinded	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blinded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blind	past	it	them = they				nearly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, it nearly sorted them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 sorted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sorted	nsubj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 sorted	advmod
5	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sorted	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 sorted	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	past	it	them = they				nearly property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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