Test 3 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th…
Bro, how did Ring get out of that barrel anyway?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ring · What happens: get out · To what, where: barrel
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 get | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 barrel | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 barrel | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 barrel | det |
| 10 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 11 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past · do-support | Ring | that barrel | Bro vocative; anyway 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 · ← Mova's choice
he broke it with an axe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 broke | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 axe | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 axe | det |
| 6 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | he | it | with a axe | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with axe=Instrument |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
he kicked the bottom out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kicked | nsubj |
| 2 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottom | det |
| 4 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kicked | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 kicked | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick out | past | he | the bottom | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient |
Option 3
he was saved
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saved | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saved | aux:pass |
| 3 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · passive | he | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4
he pushed the lid up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lid | det |
| 4 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pushed | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 pushed | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push up | past | he | the lid | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme |
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