Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the un…

wait who got smacked by the branches and died?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, branches · What happens: wait, smack, die

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 smacked	nsubj
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smacked	aux:pass
4	smacked	smack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 wait	obl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 branches	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 branches	det
7	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smacked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 died	cc
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smacked	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	smack	past · passive	the branches	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	die	past	the branches not said here	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

the guide, neck snapped badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guide	det
2	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 neck	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 guide	punct
4	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snapped	nsubj
5	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 snapped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past	guide neck					badly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

rudy's dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rudy	rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 rudy	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the uncle, skull all cracked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 uncle	det
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cracked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 skull	punct
4	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uncle	conj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 cracked	advmod
6	cracked	crack	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	crack	past	the uncle and skull					all property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

his brother, ribs all broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ribs	punct
4	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brother	conj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 broke	advmod
6	broke	break	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	break	past	his brother and ribs					all property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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