Test 2 · ★ · Beside the Fire, Guleesh, part 4: the girl is struck dumb…

Did the little fella actually slap her or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little fella · What happens: slap · To what, where: her

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1985 «Beside the Fire, Guleesh, part 4: the girl is struck dumb and Guleesh hides her at the priest's house» 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	6 slap	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fella	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fella	amod
4	fella	fella	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slap	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 slap	advmod
6	slap	slap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slap	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 slap	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 slap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slap	past · do-support	the little fella	her = she				actually property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument

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

Yeah, he absolutely smacked her one right across the side of the head, mate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 smacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smacked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smacked	nsubj
4	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	5 smacked	advmod
5	smacked	smack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smacked	obj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 side	nummod
8	right	right	ADV	_	11 side	advmod
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 side	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 side	det
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smacked	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 head	det
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 side	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mate	punct
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 side	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smack	past	he	her = she		the one side of the head and mate		absolutely property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, bang on the side of her head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bang	punct
3	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bang	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 side	nmod

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

Option 3

Nah, he gave her a clip on the chin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 clip	det
7	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 chin	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chin	det
10	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	a clip	her = she	the chin			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clip=Theme on chin=Asset

Option 4

Yeah, slapped her round the ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 slapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 slapped	punct
3	slapped	slap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slapped	obj
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 ear	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ear	det
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slap	past		her = she				round the ear	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument

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