Test 7 · ★ · Gutenberg 640, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son: a snow…

no cap, what did the fire guy do to the king that was so bad?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap, king · What happens: do, be · To what, where: fire guy

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1724 «Gutenberg 640, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son: a snow girl and a fire boy grow up, and their meeting with the King ends in ruin for all three» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cap	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guy	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guy	compound
8	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 bad	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bad	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 bad	advmod
16	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 king	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	no cap	the fire guy		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guy=Eventuality
2	do	present	no cap		to the king	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the king		bad property	tree rules

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

Grabbed him roughly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grabbed	grab	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 Grabbed	obj
3	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	1 Grabbed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past		him = he				roughly property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hugged him to death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hugged	hug	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 Hugged	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 death	case
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hugged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past		him = he				to death	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 3

Burned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burned	burn	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 Burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past		him = he					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Hit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1724-pg640-part48/t7/