Test 12 · ★ · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…
Did the sharks grab the best swimmers, bro?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sharks · What happens: grab · To what, where: best swimmers
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sharks | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sharks | det |
| 3 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grab | nsubj |
| 4 | grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 swimmers | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 swimmers | amod |
| 7 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grab | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bro | punct |
| 9 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swimmers | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 grab | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | present | the sharks | the best swimmers and bro | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Theme |
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
Nah, they just swam off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 swam | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swam | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 swam | advmod |
| 5 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 swam | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim off | past | they | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they dragged them down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 dragged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragged | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dragged | nsubj |
| 4 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dragged | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 dragged | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag down | past | they | them = they | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, sure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sure | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, they bit the swimmers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bit | nsubj |
| 4 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 swimmers | det |
| 6 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past | they | the swimmers | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=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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