Test 6 · ★ · World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1:…

what was Rosald's plan with the rocks, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: plan

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1219 «World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1: two friends ride off, Rosald wins the fight, and Geirald takes the glory» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 plan	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plan	cop
3	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 plan	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Rosald	case
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 rocks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rocks	det
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plan	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 rocks	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Rosald's plan				with the rocks	tree rules

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

roll them down the hill onto the robbers below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 roll	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 roll	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 roll	obj
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	8 robbers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 robbers	det
8	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 roll	obl
9	below	below	ADV	_	1 roll	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll down	imperative	you not said here	them = they		the robbers		below property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent they=Theme hill=Result

Option 2

drop them on the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 drop	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	imperative	you not said here	them = they		the road			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on road=Destination

Option 3

wait until the robbers came up and then roll them down the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 roll	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 roll	advmod
9	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 roll	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 roll	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roll	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come up	past	the robbers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roll down	infinitive	you not said here	robbers = robber	then	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent they=Theme hill=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

roll them down the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 roll	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 roll	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 roll	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll down	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent they=Theme hill=Result

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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