Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…

what did the troll mom say when she tried washing it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: troll mom, mom · What happens: do, say, try, wash · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1420 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 7: the North Wind carries her to the castle, and the shirt goes wrong» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mom	det
4	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mom	compound
5	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 tried	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tried	nsubj
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
10	washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 tried	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 washing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the troll mom		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	past	mom		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	wash not said to happen	gerund	mom not said here	it	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

Give it here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	it		here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You can't wash at all, give it here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 wash	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wash	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wash	advmod
4	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 wash	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wash	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	obj
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wash	can	You			all			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at all=Source
2	give	infinitive	You not said here	it		here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Just leave it, I'll handle it now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 leave	advmod
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leave	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 handle	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 handle	nsubj
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 handle	aux
7	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 leave	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 handle	obj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 handle	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	handle	future	I	it			now		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Ugh, this shirt is too dirty now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	7 dirty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ugh	punct
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 shirt	det
4	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dirty	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dirty	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 dirty	advmod
7	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 dirty	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this shirt				now	dirty property	tree rules

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