Test 7 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: th…

Bro, did the bride's sister roll the apple at him or hand it over?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, sister · What happens: do, roll, hand over · To what, where: apple

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1444 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: the Prince forgets his promise, and three suitors are tricked» 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	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bride	det
5	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sister	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 bride	case
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roll	nsubj
8	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 apple	det
10	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roll	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 roll	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 hand	cc
14	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 roll	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hand	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	14 hand	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bro			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roll	present	the bride's sister	the apple	at Bro	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent apple=Theme at he=Trajectory
3	hand over	infinitive	the bride's sister not said here	apple		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

threw it

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		it					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

handed it over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 handed	obj
3	over	over	ADP	_	1 handed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand over	past		it					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

handed it to the Prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 handed	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Prince	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 handed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	past		it	the Prince				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to prince=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

rolled it across the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 rolled	obj
3	across	across	ADP	_	5 yard	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 yard	det
5	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rolled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	past		it				across the yard	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme across yard=Trajectory

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