Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the un…

bro what did the avalanche do to the trees?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: avalanche · What happens: do · To what, where: bro

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 855 «Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the uncle, and Rudy becomes the family's hunter and guide» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 avalanche	det
5	avalanche	avalanche	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bro	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the avalanche	bro				to the trees	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

broke them like matchsticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 broke	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 matchsticks	case
4	matchsticks	matchstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past		them = they				like matchsticks	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient

Option 2

snapped them like dry rushes and buried the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 snapped	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 rushes	case
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rushes	amod
5	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 snapped	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 buried	cc
7	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 snapped	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past		them = they				like dry rushes	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
2	bury	past		the path					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

snapped them like dry rushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 snapped	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 rushes	case
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rushes	amod
5	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 snapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past		them = they				like dry rushes	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

ripped every single tree from the ground like weeds in a garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ripped	rip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tree	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ripped	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ripped	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 weeds	case
9	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ripped	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 garden	det
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rip	past		every single tree		the ground		like weeds; in a garden	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tree=Patient from ground=Source

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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