Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong Hans, part 21: Hans o…

Wild, what grabbed Hans in the middle of the lake?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: grab · To what, where: Hans, middle

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1632 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong Hans, part 21: Hans outwits the squire's plots and beats Old Eric at Devilmoss Lake» 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grabbed	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wild	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 lake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lake	det
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grabbed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past		Hans		the middle of the lake			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hans=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

Old Eric, rising out of the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Eric	amod
2	Eric	Eric	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Eric	punct
4	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Eric	acl
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 water	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rising	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund	Old Eric not said here			the water			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out water=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A huge fish with teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 teeth	case
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fish	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A monster from the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 monster	det
2	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 dark	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dark	det
5	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 monster	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A drowned log

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 log	det
2	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 log	amod
3	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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