Test 11 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth…
where did the girls' stuff come from?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stuff · What happens: come
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 come | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girls | det |
| 4 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stuff | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 girls | case |
| 6 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 come | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · do-support | the girls's stuff | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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
they carried heavy baskets of food and tools all the way up from the far shore on foot
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 baskets | amod |
| 4 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carried | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 food | case |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 baskets | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tools | cc |
| 8 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 baskets | conj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 way | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 carried | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 shore | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shore | det |
| 15 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shore | amod |
| 16 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shore | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | they | heavy baskets of food and tools | the far shore on foot | all way obl:unmarked | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent basket=Theme from shore=Initial_Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
they carried baskets of food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carried | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 food | case |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 baskets | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | they | baskets of food | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
Option 3
from the boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 boat | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
they brought it from the farm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 farm | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 farm | det |
| 6 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | they | it | the farm | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from farm=Initial_Location |
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