Test 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth…

why's the youth so scared to ask her stuff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: stuff

This is test 9 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 scared	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ask	mark
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 scared	xcomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stuff	nmod:poss
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the youth					scared property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	her stuff					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stuff=Recipient

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

cos he's a bit dumb and she's clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dumb	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dumb	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dumb	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dumb	obl:unmarked
6	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 clever	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 clever	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 clever	cop
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dumb	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	cos					a bit obl:unmarked; dumb property	tree rules
2	is	present	she					clever property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he's a bit scared of her, she knows heaps

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	5 scared	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	obl:unmarked
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knows	nsubj
10	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	conj
11	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					of her = she; a bit obl:unmarked; scared property	tree rules
2	know	present	she	heaps					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer heap=Stimulus

Option 3

he's nervous since she's older than him

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	3 nervous	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nervous	cop
3	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 older	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 older	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 older	cop
7	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 nervous	advcl
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 older	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					nervous property	tree rules
2	is	present	she					than him = he; old property	tree rules

Option 4

he's just shy lol

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	4 shy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shy	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 shy	advmod
4	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 shy	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					shy property	tree rules

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