Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29…

Was the giant proper easygoing, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1442 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29: the Prince learns tricks from the Master-maid and tames the fire horse» 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	5 easygoing	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 easygoing	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 easygoing	amod
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 easygoing	amod
5	easygoing	easygoing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 though	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 easygoing	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 easygoing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						easygoing property	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, he was proper cheerful and easygoing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 cheerful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cheerful	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cheerful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cheerful	cop
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 cheerful	advmod
6	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 easygoing	cc
8	easygoing	easygoing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cheerful	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					cheerful, properly property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 2

yes, he was dead trusting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	trusting	trust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dead	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					dead property	tree rules
2	trust	gerund	he not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

no, he was quite cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 cross	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cross	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 cross	advmod
6	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

no, he was proper suspicious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 suspicious	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 suspicious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 suspicious	cop
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 suspicious	advmod
6	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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