Test 5 · ★ · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6:…

why's the girl going around with three old ladies like it's a quest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, it · What happens: go around, be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1419 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6: the girl lights a candle, the prince flees, and she searches the winds» 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	5 going	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	nsubj
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	around	around	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 ladies	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 ladies	nummod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ladies	amod
10	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 going	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	15 quest	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 quest	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 quest	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 quest	det
15	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ladies	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go around	present · progressive	the girl					with three old ladies; around property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with lady=Beneficiary
2	is	present	it					like a quest	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

they gave her gold to keep

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	gold	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient gold=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

each one sends her to the next, until she finds the castle at last

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sends	nsubj
3	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sends	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 next	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 next	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sends	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 finds	punct
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 finds	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 finds	nsubj
11	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sends	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 finds	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 finds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	each one	her = she		the next			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to next=Destination
2	find	present	she	the castle		last			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent castle=Theme at last=Asset

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

each one sends her to the next

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sends	nsubj
3	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sends	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 next	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 next	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	each one	her = she		the next			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to next=Destination

Option 4

they're all her old friends

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	6 friends	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friends	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	6 friends	advmod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friends	nmod:poss
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friends	amod
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	her old friends				all property	tree rules

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