Test 4 · ★ · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

Did Jurgen actually drown anyone out at sea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: drown out · To what, where: Jurgen, sea

This is test 4 · ★ 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	2 Jurgen	aux
2	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drown	obl
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 drown	advmod
4	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 drown	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 drown	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drown	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 drown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown out	present		Jurgen		sea		actually property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient

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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he saved two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 saved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saved	nsubj
4	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	he	two					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he drowned two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 drowned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drowned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drowned	nsubj
4	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 drowned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past	he	two					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient

Option 3

Yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, he just chilled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 chilled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chilled	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 chilled	advmod
5	chilled	chill	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	chill	past	he						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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