Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches In…

Dude, what did the marksmen twist round their hats?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: marksmen · What happens: twist · To what, where: Dude, hats

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 857 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches Interlachen, wins the shooting match and meets Babette again» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 twist	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 twist	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 twist	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 marksmen	det
6	marksmen	marksman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 twist	nsubj
7	twist	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Dude	conj
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 hats	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hats	nmod:poss
10	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 twist	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	past · do-support	the marksmen	Dude		marksmen's hats			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent what=Theme round hat=Trajectory

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

their scores

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 scores	nmod:poss
2	scores	score	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	score		their = they						nom score «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

their gold coins and medals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 coins	nmod:poss
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coins	compound
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 medals	cc
5	medals	medal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 coins	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coin		their = they						nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

the colours of their ribbons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colours	det
2	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 ribbons	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ribbons	nmod:poss
5	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 colours	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the number of their hits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hits	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hits	nmod:poss
5	hits	hit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit		their = they						nom hit «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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