Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

Lol, what did the guests do with the leftover bones?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guests · What happens: do

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guests	det
6	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 bones	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bones	det
10	leftover	leftover	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bones	compound
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the guests					with the leftover bones	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Chucked them at each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chucked	chuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chucked	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	1 Chucked	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	participle		them = they		each			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme at each=Destination

Option 2

Tossed the leftover bones at each other across the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bones	det
3	leftover	leftover	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bones	compound
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tossed	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	1 Tossed	obl
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past		the leftover bones		each		across the table	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bone=Theme at each=Destination

Option 3

Tossed them at dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tossed	toss	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 Tossed	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 dogs	case
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past		them = they				at dogs	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme at dog=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Threw the old picked bones at each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bones	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bones	amod
4	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bones	amod
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Threw	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	1 Threw	obl
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		the old picked bones		each			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bone=Theme at each=Destination
2	pick	participle							vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=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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