Test 10 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolveri…

what did the rock do to the wolverine's legs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rock · What happens: do

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1226 «Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolverine tricks a bear up a tree after a rock, lightning and a torn coat» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rock	det
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 legs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wolverine	det
8	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 legs	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 wolverine	case
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the rock					to the wolverine's legs	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 · ← Mova's choice

rolled right on top of them and pinned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	right	right	ADV	_	1 rolled	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 top	case
4	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rolled	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 top	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pinned	cc
8	pinned	pin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 rolled	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pinned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	participle				top of them		right property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory
2	pin	past		him = he					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

rolled over his tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 tail	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tail	nmod:poss
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rolled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	participle				his tail			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tail=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

rolled on top of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 top	case
3	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rolled	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	participle				top of them			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory

Option 4

rolled over his legs and then bounced away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 legs	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 rolled	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bounced	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 bounced	advmod
7	bounced	bounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 rolled	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 bounced	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	participle				his legs			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over leg=Trajectory
2	bounce away	participle					then	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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