Test 8 · ★ · Household Stories, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 29: the d…

Wicked, what did the bear's paw do to the little man?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wicked · What happens: do · To what, where: paw

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 126 «Household Stories, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 29: the dwarf is snagged three times, and the bear becomes a prince» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wicked	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bear	det
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paw	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 bear	case
8	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 man	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the bear's paw					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Eventuality
2	do	present	Wicked					to the little man	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

Hit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 2

Threw him in the snow

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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Threw	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 snow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snow	det
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Threw	obl

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Bit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bit	obj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Knocked him out cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Knocked	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Knocked	compound:prt
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Knocked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock out	past		him = he				cold property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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