Test 4 · ★ · Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished…

Okay, how did Ball-Carrier beat her finally?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ball · What happens: beat

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1211 «Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished His Task, part 12: Lung-Woman is scalded and the Bad One drowns» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	8 beat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beat	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 beat	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beat	aux
5	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 beat	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Carrier	punct
7	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ball	conj
8	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 finally	nmod:poss
10	finally	finally	ADV	_	8 beat	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 beat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past · do-support	Ball and Carrier					finally property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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

He changed into a fast hawk and flew

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 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 hawk	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hawk	det
5	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hawk	amod
6	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flew	cc
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 changed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	He					into a fast hawk result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into hawk=Result
2	fly	past	He not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He first turned into a wolf, then an elk, then finally a humming bird and zoomed past her

The tree, 18 words

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	3 turned	nsubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 turned	advmod
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 wolf	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 elk	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 elk	advmod
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 elk	det
10	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bird	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 bird	advmod
13	finally	finally	ADV	_	16 bird	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bird	det
15	humming	humming	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bird	compound
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 zoomed	cc
18	zoomed	zoom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
19	past	past	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 zoomed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	He	a elk		a wolf		a humming bird obl; first property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into wolf=Trajectory
2	zoom	past	He not said here	bird					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location her=Theme

Option 3

He shifted to a wolf and ran fast

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 shifted	nsubj
2	shifted	shift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 wolf	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shifted	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shifted	conj
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shift	past	He					to a wolf result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wolf=Result
2	run	past	He not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He turned into a humming bird and zoomed

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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 bird	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
5	humming	humming	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	compound
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 zoomed	cc
8	zoomed	zoom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 turned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	He					into a humming bird result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bird=Result
2	zoom	participle	He not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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