Test 4 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian ou…

Did Ian actually win the wrestle with the second giant?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: win · To what, where: Ian

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Ian	aux
2	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 win	obl
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 win	advmod
4	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wrestle	det
6	wrestle	wrestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 win	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 giant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 giant	amod
10	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrestle	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 win	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present		Ian				actually property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrestle=Eventuality

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

Nah, he lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	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	lose	past	he						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, he threw him down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	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 threw	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 threw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	past	he	him = he					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Nah, the giant pinned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 pinned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pinned	nsubj
5	pinned	pin	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 pinned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pin	past	the giant	him = he					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, he flipped him right over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 flipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flipped	nsubj
4	flipped	flip	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 flipped	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	7 over	advmod
7	over	over	ADV	_	4 flipped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flip	past	he	him = he				over property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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