Test 10 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth…

was it spring when they left the island?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, they · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: spring, island

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1232 «Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth is left alone on an island and a strange girl marries him» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spring	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spring	nsubj
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl:unmarked
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 left	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 left	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 island	det
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	spring					tree rules
2	leave	past	they	the island					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it was winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 winter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 winter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 winter	cop
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	winter					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the sun was brighter and the wind softer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 brighter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brighter	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brighter	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brighter	cop
6	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wind	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brighter	conj
10	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 brighter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun					bright property	tree rules
2	be		the sun not said here						tree rules

Option 3

yeah, the sun was out and the grass was green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 out	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 out	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 out	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 out	cop
6	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 green	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 green	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 green	cop
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 out	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun					out property	tree rules
2	is	past	the grass					green property	tree rules

Option 4

no, the leaves were falling and the wind was cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 falling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaves	det
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 falling	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 falling	aux
6	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cold	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cold	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cold	cop
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 falling	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · progressive	the leaves						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the wind					cold property	tree rules

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