Test 4 · ★ · Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighter…

how good was Tell's aim, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 348 «Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighters face the spears, and Winkelried gives his life» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 good	advmod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Tell	advcl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Tell	cop
4	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Tell	case
6	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 aim	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						tell property	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

he hit the tree trunk

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 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trunk	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trunk	compound
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	he	the tree trunk					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trunk=Co-Theme

Option 2

he hit the target near the edge

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 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 target	det
4	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obj
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obl

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

Option 3

he hit the apple dead centre first time with one shot

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 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 centre	det
4	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 centre	compound
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 centre	amod
6	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 time	advmod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 shot	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 shot	nummod
11	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	he	the apple dead centre			time	with one shot	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent centre=Patient with shot=Instrument

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he hit the apple dead centre

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 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 apple	det
4	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obj
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 centre	amod
6	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	he	the apple					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient centre=Result

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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