Test 1 · ★ · Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirst…

Yo, so the king's bird keeps yeeting the cup outta his hands, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bird · What happens: keep, yeet · To what, where: cup outta

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 354 «Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirsty king is kept from drinking by his pet hawk» 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	_	8 keeps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 keeps	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeps	nsubj
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	yeeting	yeet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keeps	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 outta	det
11	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 outta	compound
12	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yeeting	obj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 outta	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 keeps	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	8 keeps	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the king's bird						tree rules
2	yeet	gerund	the king's bird not said here	the cup outta bird's hands					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 · ✓ the right answer

yep, the hawk knocks it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 knocks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hawk	det
4	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knocks	nsubj
5	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knocks	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 knocks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock away	present	the hawk	it				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

yep, it knocks it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 knocks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocks	nsubj
4	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	present	it	it					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

nah, the king drops it himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 drops	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drops	nsubj
5	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drops	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 drops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	the king	it				king obl	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

yep, the bird flicks it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 flicks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flicks	nsubj
5	flicks	flick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flicks	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 flicks	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flick off	present	the bird	it					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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