Test 3 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth…
ok and the girl pricks him with a pin, dead?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: prick · To what, where: him
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 5 pricks | discourse |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pricks | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pricks | nsubj |
| 5 | pricks | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pricks | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pin | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pin | det |
| 9 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pricks | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dead | punct |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pin | amod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 pricks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prick | present | the girl | him = he | with a pin | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with pin=Instrument |
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
yeah, he pricks her hand, blood shows, so they marry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 pricks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pricks | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pricks | nsubj |
| 4 | pricks | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pricks | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shows | punct |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shows | compound |
| 9 | shows | show | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hand | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 marry | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 marry | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 marry | nsubj |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pricks | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prick | present | he | her hand and blood shows | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | marry | present | hand | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
nope, it's his hand that gets pricked, then she runs off home
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 6 hand | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hand | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pricked | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 pricked | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pricked | aux:pass |
| 9 | pricked | prick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 runs | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 runs | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 runs | nsubj |
| 13 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pricked | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 runs | compound:prt |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 runs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | his hand | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prick | present · passive | his hand | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | run off | present | she | home | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
her hand gets pricked, blood comes, so she's his wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hand | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pricked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pricked | aux:pass |
| 4 | pricked | prick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 comes | punct |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | nsubj |
| 7 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pricked | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wife | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 wife | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wife | cop |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pricked | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prick | present · passive | her hand | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | come | present | blood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | she | his wife | tree rules |
Option 4
yeah, he gets stabbed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stabbed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stabbed | aux:pass |
| 5 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stab | present · passive | he | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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