Test 8 · ★ · Historic Tales, The Bell of Atri: an old horse pulls a gra…

lol, what did the boys and dogs do to the horse?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dogs · What happens: do · To what, where: boys

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 349 «Historic Tales, The Bell of Atri: an old horse pulls a grape-vine, the bell of justice rings, and the judges make the greedy miser share his gold» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 do	cc
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 horse	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the boys					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
2	do	present	dogs					to the horse	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

kicked him and fed him hay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 kicked	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fed	cc
4	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 kicked	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	obj
6	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past		him = he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent he=Patient hay=Result
2	feed	past			him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

chased him down the road, threw stones, and barked loudly whenever the horse came near

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 chased	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 chased	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chased	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 threw	punct
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 chased	conj
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 threw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 barked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 barked	cc
11	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 chased	conj
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	11 barked	advmod
13	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 came	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 chased	advcl
17	near	near	ADV	_	16 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chase down	past		him = he		tree rules
2	throw	past		stones		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	bark	participle			loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	the horse		near, whenever property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

threw mud and laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threw	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 laughed	cc
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 threw	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		mud					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=Theme
2	laugh	past							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

threw stones and barked at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 threw	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 barked	cc
4	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 threw	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		stones				at him = he	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at he=Destination
2	bark	participle							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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