Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: J…

Why was the swan struggling with him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: swan · What happens: be, struggle

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 255 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: Jack sneaks past the sleeping monsters, steals the apples, and heads home» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swan	det
4	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	struggling	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 swan	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 struggling	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the swan					why property	tree rules
2	struggle	gerund	the swan not said here					with him = he	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent

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

He had the apples in his wallet, dead heavy

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 apples	det
4	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wallet	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wallet	nmod:poss
7	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heavy	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heavy	amod
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wallet	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	the apples		his wallet			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient

Option 2

Too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 heavy	advmod
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

He was too heavy from the long fall

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 heavy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 heavy	advmod
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 fall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fall	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fall	amod
8	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heavy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			the long fall		heavy property	tree rules

Option 4

Apples too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 heavy	advmod
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Apples	amod

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

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