Test 7 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff…
Was the apple fight the sickest bit of the whole story?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, fight · To what, where: apple, sickest bit
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | 3 apple | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 apple | det |
| 3 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fight | compound |
| 4 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 6 | sickest | sick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 bit | amod |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fight | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 story | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 story | amod |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bit | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fight | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the apple | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fight | imperative | you not said here | the sickest bit of the whole story | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Co-Agent |
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, the cock and hen were calm but the bailiff went mental over the apple
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 calm | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cock | det |
| 4 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calm | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hen | cc |
| 6 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cock | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 calm | cop |
| 8 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bailiff | det |
| 11 | bailiff | bailiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 calm | conj |
| 13 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 went | xcomp |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 apple | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 apple | det |
| 16 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cock and hen | calm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the bailiff | the apple | mental property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over apple=Initial_Location |
Option 2
Yeah, the cock and hen went mental and the whole palace got a right shock
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cock | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cock | det |
| 4 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hen | cc |
| 6 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cock | conj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 went | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 palace | amod |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shock | det |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shock | amod |
| 16 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the cock and hen | mental property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the whole palace | a right shock | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shock=Stimulus |
Option 3
Nah, the hen just sat there calm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 sat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hen | det |
| 4 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 sat | advmod |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sat | advmod |
| 8 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sat | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the hen | there | calm property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the cock and hen went mental
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 cock | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cock | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cock | det |
| 4 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hen | cc |
| 6 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cock | conj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 went | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the cock and hen | mental property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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