Test 11 · ★ · Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his…

How did the foal finish off the magician, like, properly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: foal · What happens: finish off · To what, where: magician

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1717 «Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his mother's money on a dog and a cat» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 finish	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finish	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 foal	det
4	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finish	nsubj
5	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 finish	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 magician	det
8	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finish	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	5 finish	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 properly	punct
12	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 finish	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 finish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish off	past · do-support	the foal	the magician				properly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector magician=Eventuality

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

Kicked him up into the sky and let him fall far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kicked	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Kicked	compound:prt
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 sky	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kicked	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Kicked	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kick up	past		him = he	into the sky result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into sky=Result
2	let	infinitive		him = he		tree rules
3	fall	infinitive	him = he not said here		away property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Kicked and stamped him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kicked	kick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stamped	advcl
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 stamped	cc
3	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stamped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	participle							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	stamp	past		him = he					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Trampled him in the mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trampled	trample	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Trampled	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 mud	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mud	det
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trampled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trample	past		him = he		the mud			tree rules

Option 4

Bit and kicked him hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kicked	obl:unmarked
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 kicked	cc
3	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kicked	obj
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 kicked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past		Bit				hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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