Test 4 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…

lol the lion cub totally wrecked the dog, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: lion cub · What happens: wreck · To what, where: dog

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» 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	_	6 wrecked	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cub	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cub	compound
4	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrecked	nsubj
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 wrecked	advmod
6	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrecked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wrecked	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	6 wrecked	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wrecked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	past	the lion cub	the dog				totally property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient

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 cub bit the dog's throat then ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 aye	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cub	det
4	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nsubj
5	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ran	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 throat	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 dog	case
9	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	obj
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 ran	advmod
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	the cub	the dog's throat					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Patient
2	run	past					then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

naw, the dog wiz fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	naw	naw	INTJ	_	6 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 naw	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wiz	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wiz	compound
5	wiz	wiz	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fine	nsubj
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

aye, shook him deid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	aye	aye	INTJ	_	3 shook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shook	punct
3	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shook	obj
5	deid	deid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past		him = he					vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent he=Theme deid=Destination

Option 4

aye, the dog won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 won	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 aye	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 won	nsubj
5	won	win	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	win	past	the dog						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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