Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees…

so Canute was like well dead, proper gutted?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Canute · What happens: be, gut

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 801 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees the sunset, meets the poor boy, and the old Bell tells its tales» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
2	Canute	Canute	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
4	like	like	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 dead	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gutted	punct
8	proper	properly	ADV	_	9 gutted	advmod
9	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dead	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Canute					dead, like, well property	tree rules
2	gut	participle	Canute not said here					properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

a rock broke the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	a rock	the window					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient

Option 2

an arrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 arrow	det
2	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a stone smashed through the glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stone	acl
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 glass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 glass	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	participle		a stone not said here		the glass			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through glass=Destination

Option 4

an arrow hit the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 arrow	det
2	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	nsubj
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a arrow	the door					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Co-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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