Test 9 · ★ · Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the avenger shoots the re…

Bro, how'd the eagle hit the ground?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: hit · To what, where: ground

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1271 «Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the avenger shoots the red eagle and wins the princess» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hit	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hit	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 hit	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hit	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eagle	det
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hit	nsubj
7	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hit	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	would	Bro	the ground					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme

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

spun to the ground slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 ground	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 spun	obl
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 spun	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	participle				the ground		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ground=Trajectory

Option 2

crashed into the tall grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	5 grass	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grass	amod
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 crashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	past						into the tall grass result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into grass=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

tumbled from the great height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 height	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 height	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 height	amod
5	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tumbled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tumble	participle				the great height			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from height=Initial_Location

Option 4

it fell from way up high after the arrow went through its breast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 way	case
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
5	up	up	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fell	advmod
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 went	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 arrow	det
9	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	advcl
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 breast	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 breast	nmod:poss
13	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	it			way		high property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from way=Initial_Location
2	go	past	the arrow			arrow's breast			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through breast=Initial_Location

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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