Test 4 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: th…

Was the old crone proper grumpy in the hut?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old crone · What happens: be · To what, where: hut

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1444 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: the Prince forgets his promise, and three suitors are tricked» 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	6 grumpy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crone	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crone	amod
4	crone	crone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grumpy	nsubj
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 grumpy	advmod
6	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hut	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hut	det
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grumpy	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 grumpy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old crone			the hut		grumpy, properly 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

yeah, grumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 grumpy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

nah, she was sleeping soundly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sleeping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sleeping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sleeping	aux
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	5 sleeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · progressive	she					soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, ill-tempered and malicious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tempered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tempered	punct
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tempered	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ill	punct
5	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 malicious	cc
7	malicious	malicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tempered	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	temper	participle							tree rules

Option 4

yeah, sweet and very generous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sweet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sweet	punct
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 generous	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 generous	advmod
6	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sweet	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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