Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and…

Ken how the hero actually beat her, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ken · What happens: beat · To what, where: hero

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2009 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and the sea-maiden dies» 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	Ken	Ken	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 beat	nsubj
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 beat	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hero	det
4	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 beat	advmod
6	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 beat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	6 beat	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 beat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	Ken	hero				actually property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=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 · ← Mova's choice

He stamped on the egg with his foot, mate

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 stamped	nsubj
2	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 egg	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 egg	det
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stamped	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 foot	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 foot	nmod:poss
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stamped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 foot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stamp	past	He			the egg		with his foot and mate	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on egg=Destination

Option 2

He caught the hoodie

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 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hoodie	det
4	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	He	the hoodie					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoodie=Theme

Option 3

He stole the trout

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 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trout	det
4	trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	He	the trout					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trout=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He broke the egg

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 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 egg	det
4	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	He	the egg					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient

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