Test 12 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the…

ghosted? what did the Bull do to the silver troll's eyes?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bull · What happens: ghost, do

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1548 «Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the Bull flee, and she tears leaves in three magic woods» 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	ghosted	ghost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ghosted	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bull	det
6	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 ghosted	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	13 eyes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 troll	det
10	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 troll	amod
11	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eyes	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 troll	case
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ghosted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ghost	participle							tree rules
2	do	past · do-support	the Bull					to the silver troll's eyes	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

clawed out eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clawed	claw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 eyes	amod
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 clawed	compound:prt
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claw out	participle							vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

bit them off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bit	bit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 bit	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 bit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bit off	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

gored them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gored	gore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gored	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 gored	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gore out	past		them = they					tree rules

Option 4

gored them out with his horns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gored	gore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gored	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 gored	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 horns	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horns	nmod:poss
6	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 gored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gore out	past		them = they				with his horns	tree rules

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