Test 7 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Hadvor and Hermod: Hadvor frees Hermod…
Did the whale fight wipe them all out, like the whole crew?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whale fight · What happens: wipe out · To what, where: them
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1746 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hadvor and Hermod: Hadvor frees Hermod, and Hermod becomes King» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wipe | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fight | det |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fight | compound |
| 4 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wipe | nsubj |
| 5 | wipe | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wipe | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 wipe | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crew | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 crew | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crew | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 crew | amod |
| 13 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wipe | parataxis |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wipe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe out | past · do-support | the whale fight | them = they | out property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
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
Yes, the whale sank the whole boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 sank | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 whale | det |
| 4 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sank | nsubj |
| 5 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boat | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boat | amod |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sank | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | the whale | the whole boat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |
Option 2
No, the whale stayed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 whale | det |
| 4 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | nsubj |
| 5 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the whale | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The big whale and fifteen smaller ones vanished
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whale | amod |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vanished | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ones | cc |
| 5 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ones | nummod |
| 6 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 ones | amod |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 whale | conj |
| 8 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | the big whale and fifteen smaller ones | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
No, the whale and the boat both sank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 whale | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 whale | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 whale | det |
| 4 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sank | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 boat | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boat | det |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whale | conj |
| 8 | both | both | ADV | _ | 9 sank | advmod |
| 9 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | the whale and the boat | both property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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