Test 9 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, The God Pan, part 35: Pan is bor…

Gutted, what did the hunters do when they got nowt?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hunters · What happens: gut, do, get · To what, where: nowt

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 529 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The God Pan, part 35: Pan is born strange, wins the gods' love, makes his pipe, and guards the shepherds» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hunters	det
6	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Gutted	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 got	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
11	nowt	nowt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	gut	participle			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	past · do-support	the hunters		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	get	past	hunters = hunter	nowt	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nowt=Stimulus

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

they smashed the old carving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smashed	nsubj
2	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 carving	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 carving	amod
5	carving	carving	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smashed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past	they	the old carving					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carving=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they dragged Pan's statue out and beat it till it broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dragged	nsubj
2	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 statue	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Pan	case
5	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	2 dragged	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 beat	cc
8	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dragged	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 beat	obj
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 broke	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 broke	nsubj
12	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	drag out	past	they	Pan's statue	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Theme
2	beat	infinitive	they not said here	statue	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	break	past	statue		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they beat Pan's wooden statue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 statue	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Pan	case
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 statue	amod
6	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	they	Pan's wooden statue					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location statue=Theme

Option 4

they threw Pan's wooden statue into the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 statue	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Pan	case
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 statue	amod
6	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	they	Pan's wooden statue				into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer statue=Theme into river=Result

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