Test 8 · ★ · Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades…

How did the fake groom get kicked out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: kick out · To what, where: fake groom

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1513 «Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades his horse for magic boots, reaches the castle and wins the bride» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 kicked	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kicked	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 groom	det
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 groom	amod
5	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kicked	nsubj:pass
6	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kicked	aux:pass
7	kicked	kick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 kicked	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 kicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick out	past · passive · do-support		the fake groom					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient

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

Chased out by the guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Chased	compound:prt
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 guards	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guards	det
5	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase out	participle						by the guards	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by guard=Trajectory

Option 2

Sent home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle						home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Thrown out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Thrown	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Flung out of the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	5 window	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 window	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flung	obl

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

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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