Test 4 · ★ · Hibernian Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of Glen: t…

Was the spit used to batter the giant, sound?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, use, batter · To what, where: spit, giant

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1518 «Hibernian Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of Glen: the Thief's last tale saves the youngest prince» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spit	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spit	det
3	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spit	acl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 batter	mark
6	batter	batter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 batter	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sound	punct
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 giant	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 spit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the spit	tree rules
2	use	participle	the spit not said here	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	batter	to-infinitive	the giant and sound	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent giant=Instrument

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 · ✓ the right answer

it ran through his eye

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 eye	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eye	nmod:poss
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	it			his eye			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through eye=Trajectory

Option 2

it went through his arm

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 arm	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arm	nmod:poss
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it			his arm			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through arm=Initial_Location

Option 3

yes, it ran through his eye and into his brain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 eye	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eye	nmod:poss
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brain	cc
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 brain	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brain	nmod:poss
11	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eye	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	it			his eye and his brain			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through eye=Trajectory

Option 4

it stuck in his head

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 stuck	nsubj
2	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past	it			his head			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in head=Destination

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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