Test 7 · ★ · Norse Tales, Esben and the Witch, part 46: Esben steals th…

Did Esben's stick actually fly him over the river?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, fly · To what, where: stick, Esben, river

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1657 «Norse Tales, Esben and the Witch, part 46: Esben steals the dove, then the king asks for a golden-bristled boar» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stick	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Esben	case
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod
6	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fly	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fly	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Esben's stick					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Eventuality
2	fly	present		Esben		the river		actually property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme over river=Location

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

Yeah, it carried him across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	obj
6	across	across	ADV	_	4 carried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	it	him = he				across property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it carried him right across the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	4 carried	advmod
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	it	him = he		the river		right property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Nah, it just dropped him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dropped	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 dropped	advmod
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	it	him = he					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, it carried him across and back again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	obj
6	across	across	ADV	_	4 carried	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 back	cc
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 across	conj
9	again	again	ADV	_	4 carried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	it	him = he			again	across property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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