Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: th…

Ngl, was the gold hut lit up like a mint disco?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be, lit up · To what, where: gold hut

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hut	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hut	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hut	det
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hut	compound
6	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hut	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 lit	compound:prt
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 disco	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 disco	det
11	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 disco	compound
12	disco	disco	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lit	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the gold hut					tree rules
2	lit up	participle		the gold hut not said here				like a mint disco	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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, shining and glittering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 shining	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shining	punct
3	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 glittering	cc
5	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 shining	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	glitter	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it was a plain hut with only a few old candles inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 hut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hut	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hut	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hut	det
6	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hut	amod
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	13 candles	case
9	only	only	ADV	_	13 candles	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 candles	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 candles	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 candles	amod
13	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hut	nmod
14	inside	inside	ADV	_	13 candles	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a plain hut				with a few old candles	tree rules

Option 3

nah, it was grey and quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 grey	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grey	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grey	cop
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 quiet	cc
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grey	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					grey property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 4

nah, just dull and gloomy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dull	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 dull	advmod
4	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gloomy	cc
6	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dull	conj

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

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