Test 3 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is sw…

Wait, how did Pivi get out of that giant clam thing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Pivi · What happens: wait, get out · To what, where: giant clam thing

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1231 «Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is swallowed by a shell-fish, and is punished» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	12 thing	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 thing	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 thing	nsubj
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
11	clam	clam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	compound
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get out	past · do-support	Pivi	giant clam thing					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

He stabbed it with his spear and then swam home

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stabbed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 spear	case
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	2 stabbed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 swam	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 swam	advmod
9	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stabbed	conj
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 swam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past	He	it				with his spear	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with spear=Instrument
2	swim	past	He not said here				then	home property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He poked it with a stick

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 poked	nsubj
2	poked	poke	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 poked	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 stick	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stick	det
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	past	He	it				with a stick	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with stick=Instrument

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He stabbed it with his spear

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stabbed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 spear	case
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	2 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past	He	it				with his spear	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with spear=Instrument

Option 4

He cracked it with a rock

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 cracked	nsubj
2	cracked	crack	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 cracked	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rock	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cracked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	He	it				with a rock	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with rock=Instrument

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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