Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man…

so the stone turned into what, a pebble?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stone · What happens: turn

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1570 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man searches for Jack, and the Eagle carries him to the farmer's house» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stone	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 what	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 turned	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pebble	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pebble	det
9	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the stone						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=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 · ✓ the right answer

a huge high mountain he had to break through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mountain	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mountain	amod
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mountain	amod
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 break	mark
8	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	through	through	ADP	_	8 break	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	a huge high mountain						tree rules
2	break through	to-infinitive	a huge high mountain not said here						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

a huge hill that blocked the road for ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hill	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hill	amod
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blocked	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 blocked	nsubj
5	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blocked	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ages	case
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	past	a huge hill	the road			for ages		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer road=Theme

Option 3

a huge high mountain he had to break through with his bare hands and an axe

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mountain	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mountain	amod
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mountain	amod
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 break	mark
8	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	through	through	ADP	_	8 break	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 hands	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
12	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hands	amod
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 break	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 axe	cc
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 axe	det
16	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hands	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	a huge high mountain						tree rules
2	break through	to-infinitive	a huge high mountain not said here					with mountain's bare hands and a axe	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hand=Instrument

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a huge high mountain he had to break through, and it took him a whole day to get past it

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mountain	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mountain	amod
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mountain	amod
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 break	mark
8	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	through	through	ADP	_	8 break	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 day	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl:unmarked
18	to	to	PART	_	19 get	mark
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 took	advcl
20	past	past	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	a huge high mountain				tree rules
2	break through	to-infinitive	a huge high mountain not said here				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	take	past	it	mountain		day	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
4	get	to-infinitive			it		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past it=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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