Test 9 · ★ · Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwits the ogress and es…

lol, why couldn't Halfman outrun the ogre?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Halfman · What happens: not outrun · To what, where: ogre

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1810 «Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwits the ogress and escapes the ogre» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 outrun	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 outrun	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 outrun	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 outrun	advmod
6	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 outrun	nsubj
7	outrun	outrun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ogre	det
9	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 outrun	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 outrun	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not outrun	could	Halfman	the ogre					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 · ✓ the right answer

his legs were shorter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 legs	nmod:poss
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shorter	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shorter	cop
4	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his legs					short property	tree rules

Option 2

he had no food

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no food					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 3

he was too tired

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	4 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					tired property	tree rules

Option 4

he was slow

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 slow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slow	cop
3	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					slow property	tree rules

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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