Test 1 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth…

yo so the dude gets ditched on an island by his mate, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: ditch · To what, where: dude, island

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1232 «Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth is left alone on an island and a strange girl marries him» 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	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 ditched	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dude	det
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ditched	nsubj:pass
5	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ditched	aux:pass
6	ditched	ditch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 yo	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 island	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 island	det
9	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ditched	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 mate	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mate	nmod:poss
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ditched	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	1 yo	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ditch	present · passive	his mate	the dude		a island			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

he goes off and makes a bow out of a tree, then shoots loads of birds and cooks them

The tree, 19 words

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 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 goes	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 makes	cc
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bow	det
7	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 tree	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shoots	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 shoots	advmod
14	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	conj
15	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shoots	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 birds	case
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 loads	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cooks	cc
19	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cooks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go off	present	he				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	make	present	he not said here	a bow	a tree		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bow=Product
3	shoot	present	he not said here	loads of birds		then	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme
4	cook	present	he not said here	loads = load			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

he makes a bow and then shoots seabirds to eat

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bow	det
4	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shoots	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 shoots	advmod
7	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
8	seabirds	seabird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shoots	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 shoots	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	make	present	he	a bow		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Product
2	shoot	present	he not said here	seabirds	then	tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he cuts wood and shoots birds for food

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 cuts	nsubj
2	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cuts	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shoots	cc
5	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cuts	conj
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shoots	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoots	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	he	wood					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Product
2	shoot	present	he not said here	birds				for food	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he builds a bow and shoots birds to survive

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 builds	nsubj
2	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bow	det
4	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 builds	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shoots	cc
6	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 builds	conj
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shoots	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 survive	mark
9	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shoots	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	build	present	he	a bow	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Product
2	shoot	present	he not said here	birds	tree rules
3	survive	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn exist-47.1-1 «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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