Test 1 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a…

Yo, was Peder a proper rider or was he just bare bluffing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Peder · What happens: be, bluff · To what, where: Peder

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1199 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a ring, the princess is walled up, and the hill-man dies under a stone» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 Peder	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Peder	cop
4	Peder	Peder	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rider	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rider	amod
7	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Peder	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 bluffing	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bluffing	aux
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bluffing	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 bluffing	advmod
12	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bluffing	amod
13	bluffing	bluff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 rider	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Peder	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Peder					tree rules
2	bluff	past · progressive	Peder						vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He was bluffing, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bluffing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bluffing	aux
3	bluffing	bluff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bluffing	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bluff	past · progressive	He					mate vocative	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He was totally bluffing the whole time, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bluffing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bluffing	aux
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 bluffing	advmod
4	bluffing	bluff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bluffing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bluffing	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bluff	past · progressive	He				time	mate vocative; totally property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Proper rider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rider	amod
2	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

He was the real deal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 deal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	the real deal					tree rules

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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