Test 13 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong Hans, part 21: Hans o…

Proper, how did he finally sort out Old Eric?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, sort out · To what, where: Old Eric

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sort	nsubj
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 sort	advmod
7	sort	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 sort	compound:prt
9	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Eric	amod
10	Eric	Eric	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sort	obl:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						properly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sort out	present	he	Old Eric				finally property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

He beat him with an oar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 oar	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 oar	det
6	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	He	him = he				with a oar	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with oar=Instrument

Option 2

He pushed him under the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pushed	nsubj
2	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pushed	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	He	him = he		the water			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme under water=Trajectory

Option 3

He drowned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drowned	nsubj
2	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drowned	obj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He walloped his back with the staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walloped	nsubj
2	walloped	wallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walloped	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 staff	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 staff	det
7	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walloped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wallop	past	He	his back				with the staff	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent back=Patient with staff=Instrument

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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