Test 9 · ★ · Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three s…

Dude, what happened when Ivan whacked the cushions?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, Ivan · What happens: happen, whack · To what, where: cushions

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 424 «Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three snakes and tricks the Snake's wife» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 whacked	advmod
6	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 whacked	nsubj
7	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cushions	det
9	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 whacked	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Dude						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whack	past	Ivan	the cushions					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cushion=Patient

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

dust rose up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 rose	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise up	past	dust						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

blood came out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	blood					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 3

ash came out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	ash					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

she fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	she						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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