Test 5 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleto…

Was that marksman well good at shooting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: shoot

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1722 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleton gathers strange companions for his ship» 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	Was	was	ADP	_	3 marksman	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 marksman	det
3	marksman	marksman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 good	obl
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	SCONJ	_	7 shooting	mark
7	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 good	advcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	gerund							vn throw-17.1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he could hit a bird miles away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hit	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hit	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	aux
5	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 miles	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 miles	compound
8	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hit	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 hit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	could	he	a bird miles				away property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Co-Theme

Option 2

Nah, not really, but he could hit a bird a few miles off if the wind was right

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	9 hit	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 hit	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hit	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hit	aux
9	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 miles	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 miles	amod
14	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hit	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	20 right	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 right	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wind	det
18	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 right	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	could	he	a bird					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient mile=Result
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the wind					right property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, he hit a rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rabbit	det
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	he	a rabbit					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rabbit=Co-Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he could hit a bird or beast a hundred miles away, easy, even in the dark

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hit	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hit	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	aux
5	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 beast	cc
9	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hundred	det
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 miles	nummod
12	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 away	obl:unmarked
13	away	away	ADV	_	5 hit	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 easy	punct
15	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hit	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dark	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	20 dark	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 dark	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dark	det
20	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	could	he	a bird or beast		the dark		away property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bird=Theme in dark=Destination

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