Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, pa…
Ingiborg gave him a ball of string, yeah? What was it for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ingiborg · What happens: give, be · To what, where: ball, him
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 714 «Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, part 54: Sigurd hides three times and is cursed by a giantess» 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
Sentence 1: Ingiborg gave him a ball of string, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ingiborg | Ingiborg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ball | det |
| 5 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 string | case |
| 7 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ball | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| 9 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 gave | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Ingiborg | a ball of string | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ball=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: What was it for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 What | case |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ball | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
to roll him to the cliffs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 roll | mark |
| 2 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 roll | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 cliffs | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cliffs | det |
| 6 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 roll | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | to-infinitive | him = he | the cliffs | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cliff=Trajectory |
Option 2
to pull him to the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 pull | mark |
| 2 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pull | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pull | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | to-infinitive | him = he | the river | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to river=Destination |
Option 3
so that he could roll himself out to the cliffs safely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 roll | mark |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 1 so | fixed |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 roll | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 roll | aux |
| 5 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 roll | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 roll | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 cliffs | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cliffs | det |
| 10 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 roll | obl |
| 11 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 5 roll | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll out | could | he | himself = he | the cliffs | safely property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to cliff=Trajectory |
Option 4
to roll him down the high cliffs toward the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 roll | mark |
| 2 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 roll | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 roll | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cliffs | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cliffs | amod |
| 7 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 roll | obl |
| 8 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 roll | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll down | to-infinitive | him = he | the sea | the high cliffs obl | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme toward sea=Trajectory |
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