Test 11 · ★ · Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries t…

Okay, what did the young men do on the way?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young men · What happens: do · To what, where: way

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1212 «Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries the gold and the bridge, and Ball-Carrier goes home» 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	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	do	present	the young men			the way			vn act-114-1 «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

Ran and threw stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stones	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 threw	cc
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ran	conj
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	participle							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Raced and threw spears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Raced	race	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spears	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 threw	cc
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Raced	conj
4	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	participle							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Raced across the plain and threw spears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Raced	race	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	across	across	ADP	_	4 plain	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plain	det
4	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Raced	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 threw	cc
6	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Raced	conj
7	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	participle				the plain			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across plain=Trajectory
2	throw	past		spears					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme

Option 4

Walked on and rested, then raced and threw spears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADV	_	1 Walked	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 rested	cc
4	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Walked	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 raced	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 raced	advmod
7	raced	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Walked	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 threw	cc
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 raced	conj
10	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	walk on	past			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rest	past			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	race	past		then	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	throw	past	spears		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=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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