Test 7 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a…

Did the careless soldier fancy going down the hole, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: careless soldier fancy · What happens: do, go down · To what, where: careless soldier fancy, hole

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fancy	det
3	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fancy	amod
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fancy	compound
5	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fancy	acl
7	down	down	ADP	_	9 hole	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hole	det
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	1 Did	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the careless soldier fancy					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Eventuality
2	go down	gerund	the careless soldier fancy not said here	the hole					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hole=Extent

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

He went down, but he was really scared about it

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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 scared	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 scared	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scared	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 scared	cop
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 scared	advmod
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	conj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	He					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	past	he					about it; scared property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he refused and ran off to the tavern instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 ran	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 tavern	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tavern	det
10	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obl
11	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 refused	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	he					instead property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	run off	past	he not said here					to the tavern result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tavern=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He went, no choice

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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 choice	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 choice	det
5	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He	no choice					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He refused, said no

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	2 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	conj
5	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	He						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	He not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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