Test 3 · ★ · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

Did he hang on to his gear or ditch it, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: hang on, ditch · To what, where: gear

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1288 «Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "wolf" that turns out to be his dog Caro» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hang	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hang	nsubj
3	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 hang	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 gear	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gear	nmod:poss
7	gear	gear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hang	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 ditch	cc
9	ditch	ditch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hang	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ditch	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ditch	vocative
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	past · do-support	he					to his gear	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ditch	infinitive	he not said here	gear				mate vocative	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 sold most of it

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 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 sold	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	He	most of it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He ditched most of it

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 ditched	nsubj
2	ditched	ditch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 ditched	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ditch	past	He	most of it					tree rules

Option 3

He threw everything into the ditch behind him

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 threw	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 ditch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ditch	det
6	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	He	everything				into the ditch result; behind him = he	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer everything=Theme into ditch=Result

Option 4

He kept some of it

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 kept	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 some	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He	some					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme

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