Test 1 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, part 1: Manstin fin…

ngl, why did manstin's rope just vanish on him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: do, vanish · To what, where: rope

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1275 «Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, part 1: Manstin finds his eyes again, then seven friends set out to make war and the first warriors drop away» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	manstin	manstin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rope	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 manstin	case
7	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 vanish	advmod
9	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 vanish	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ngl	manstin's rope					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Eventuality
2	vanish	present	ngl not said here					on ngl	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

he dropped the end by accident

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 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 accident	case
6	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	the end				by accident	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent end=Theme by accident=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a bear grabbed the rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grabbed	nsubj
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rope	det
5	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	a bear	the rope					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme

Option 3

the rope slipped off when he tied the knot too tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slipped	nsubj
3	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 slipped	compound:prt
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 tied	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tied	nsubj
7	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slipped	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 knot	det
9	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tied	obj
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 tight	advmod
11	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tied	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip off	past	the rope						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	tie	past	rope	the knot				tight property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient

Option 4

he let go of the end without noticing it at all

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 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 noticing	mark
8	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 go	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 noticing	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 noticing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	let	past	he				tree rules
2	go	infinitive	he not said here			of the end	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of end=Initial_Location
3	notice	gerund	he not said here	end	all		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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