Test 5 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

did the guy throw his spear at her, or just wave it around?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: guy · What happens: throw, wave around · To what, where: spear

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guy	det
3	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throw	nsubj
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 spear	nmod:poss
6	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throw	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wave	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 wave	cc
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 wave	advmod
12	wave	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throw	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wave	obj
14	around	around	ADV	_	12 wave	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past · do-support	the guy	guy's spear				at her = she	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spear=Theme at she=Destination
2	wave around	infinitive	the guy not said here	spear				around property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

he stabbed the sand

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 stabbed	nsubj
2	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sand	det
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past	he	the sand					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Patient

Option 2

he threw it at the water instead

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	2 threw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	it		the water		instead property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at water=Destination

Option 3

he jabbed at her

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 jabbed	nsubj
2	jabbed	jab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jab	past	he					at her = she	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at she=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

threw it at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		it				at her = she	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at she=Destination

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