Test 1 · ★ · Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom m…

Yo, did Tom actually chuck the guard in the canal, like, proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, chuck · To what, where: Tom, guard, canal

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2021 «Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom makes the princess laugh twice and sends off the wolf» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 chuck	advmod
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guard	det
8	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 canal	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 canal	det
11	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 proper	punct
13	like	like	INTJ	_	15 proper	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chuck	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Tom					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Eventuality
2	chuck	present		the guard		the canal		actually property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent guard=Theme in canal=Destination

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

Yeah, he flung him in the canal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 flung	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flung	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flung	nsubj
4	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flung	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 canal	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 canal	det
8	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past	he	him = he		the canal			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in canal=Destination

Option 2

Nope, he just pushed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 pushed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pushed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 pushed	advmod
5	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pushed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	he	him = he					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Nope, he dragged the guard down to the canal and let him go free

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 dragged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dragged	nsubj
4	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guard	det
6	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 dragged	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 canal	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 canal	det
10	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dragged	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drag down	past	he	the guard	the canal	down property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme to canal=Destination
2	let	infinitive	he not said here	him = he			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	him = he not said here			free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he threw the guard in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guard	det
6	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	4 threw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw in	past	he	the guard					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Theme

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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