Test 12 · ★ · Jurgen, Jurgen, part 177: Jurgen leaves Martin's house and…

How did Martin die, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Martin · What happens: die

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 966 «Jurgen, Jurgen, part 177: Jurgen leaves Martin's house and is jailed for Martin's murder» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 die	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
3	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 die	nsubj
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 real	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 real	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 die	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · do-support	Martin						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 · ← Mova's choice

strangled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	strangled	strangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strangle	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

his throat was cut in the barn

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 throat	nmod:poss
2	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux:pass
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 barn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 barn	det
7	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past · passive		his throat		the barn			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

throat cut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 throat	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle		throat not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

beaten hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 beaten	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	participle						hard property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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