Test 4 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff…
Was the bailiff's dance with the calf dead funny?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: dance
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dance | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bailiff | det |
| 3 | bailiff | bailiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dance | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 bailiff | case |
| 5 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 funny | csubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 calf | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 calf | det |
| 8 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 funny | obl |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 funny | amod |
| 10 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 funny | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the bailiff's dance | 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
Nah, he looked well cool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | advmod |
| 6 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | he | cool, well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he looked proper gutted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 gutted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gutted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gutted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gutted | aux:pass |
| 5 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 6 gutted | advmod |
| 6 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | past · passive | he | properly property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
Option 3
Yeah, he looked dead happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | xcomp |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | he | dead, happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
Nah, kinda boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 boring | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 4 boring | advmod |
| 4 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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