Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff…
Did the sheriff's shovel-handle idea actually work, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: shovel handle idea
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1445 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff is tricked into chasing a calf all night, and at last the wedding is held» 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sheriff | det |
| 3 | sheriff | sheriff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 idea | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 sheriff | case |
| 5 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 idea | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 shovel | punct |
| 7 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 idea | compound |
| 8 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 9 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 10 work | advmod |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 idea | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bruv | punct |
| 12 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 idea | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the sheriff's shovel handle idea work and bruv | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality |
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, it worked fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 worked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 worked | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 worked | nsubj |
| 4 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 worked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | it | fine property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nah, it broke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 broke | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | it | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Yeah, it did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it held fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 held | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 held | nsubj |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 held | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | it | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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