Test 12 · ★ · Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wi…

What did the knife do to the horses when he held it up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: knife, he · What happens: do, hold up · To what, where: knife

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1784 «Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wild horses and wins the princess with a magic knife.» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knife	det
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 horses	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horses	det
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 held	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 held	nsubj
11	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 horses	acl:relcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 held	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 held	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the knife		to the horses	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hold up	past	he	knife		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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

Scared them all away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Scared	obl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 them	nmod:unmarked
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Scared	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Made them kneel down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Made	obj
3	kneel	kneel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Made	xcomp
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 kneel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		them = they					tree rules
2	kneel down	infinitive	them = they not said here					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Made them all bow down to him in the meadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Made	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bow	advmod
4	bow	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Made	parataxis
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 bow	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 down	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 meadow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meadow	det
10	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		them = they		the meadow			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
2	bow down	present						down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Made them bow down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Made	obj
3	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Made	xcomp
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 bow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		them = they					tree rules
2	bow down	infinitive	them = they not said here						vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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