Test 2 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong Hans, part 21: Hans o…

Bruh, what did the lads actually do when he was cutting trees?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lads, he · What happens: do, cut · To what, where: trees

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lads	det
6	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 cutting	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cutting	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cutting	aux
12	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 do	advcl
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cutting	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the lads		actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cut	past · progressive	he	trees		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product

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

They stood there gawping with their mouths open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
4	gawping	gawp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 mouths	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouths	nmod:poss
7	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gawping	obl
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gawping	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	They			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gawp	gerund	They not said here					with their mouths; open property	tree rules

Option 2

They all stood around the field watching in silence, too scared to move a single finger while he cut the trees down

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 stood	advmod
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	around	around	ADP	_	6 field	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 field	det
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
7	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 field	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 silence	case
9	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watching	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 scared	punct
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 scared	advmod
12	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stood	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 move	mark
14	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 scared	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 finger	det
16	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 finger	amod
17	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 move	obj
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 cut	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cut	nsubj
20	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 trees	det
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cut	obj
23	down	down	ADV	_	20 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	They		the field		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around field=Location
2	watch	gerund	the field not said here		silence		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location
3	move	to-infinitive	They not said here	a single finger			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
4	cut down	past	he	the trees		down property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product

Option 3

They watched from the fence quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watched	nsubj
2	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 fence	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fence	det
5	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watched	obl
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 watched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	They			the fence		quietly property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They just sat around doing nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	around	around	ADP	_	5 doing	mark
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit around	past	They						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	gerund	They not said here	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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