Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth…

was the girl the boss of the whole thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: girl

This is test 8 · ★ 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 girl	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boss	compound
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boss	det
5	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 thing	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boss	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 boss	punct

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

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

no, her father ran everything here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 ran	obj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	her father	everything		here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everything=Trajectory

Option 2

yeah, she knew a lot more about the island and the house than he did, so she gave the orders

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obj
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 knew	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 island	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 island	det
10	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 house	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 island	conj
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 did	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 more	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 gave	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	nsubj
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 orders	det
22	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	past	she	a lot	tree rules
2	do	past	he		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	she	the orders	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme

Option 3

yeah, she just followed her dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 followed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 followed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 followed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 followed	advmod
5	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 followed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	she	her dad					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah she knew loads more than him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 knew	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knew	obj
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 knew	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	she	loads					tree rules

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