Test 4 · ★ · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

how'd Ring get up that cliff, lowkey?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: ring, get up · To what, where: cliff

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» 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	3 Ring	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 Ring	aux
3	Ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 Ring	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 get	compound:prt
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 cliff	det
7	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lowkey	punct
9	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cliff	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Ring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	would							tree rules
2	get up	infinitive		that cliff and lowkey					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cliff=Stimulus

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

riding on Snati's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 back	case
3	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 back	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Snati	case
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 riding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund				Snati's back			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Snati dragged him up by the collar and tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	nsubj
2	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dragged	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 dragged	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 collar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 collar	det
7	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tail	cc
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 collar	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag up	past	Snati	him = he				by the collar and tail	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

climbing up Snati's neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 climbing	compound:prt
3	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 neck	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Snati	case
5	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 climbing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	gerund		Snati's neck					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location neck=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

hanging onto Snati's tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	onto	onto	ADP	_	5 tail	case
3	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tail	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Snati	case
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund				Snati's tail			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme onto tail=Destination

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.

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