Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff…

Did they actually have the wedding in the end, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: have · To what, where: wedding, end

This is test 8 · ★ 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wedding	det
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wedding	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 real	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 real	case
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 real	case
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	they	the wedding			in the end	actually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Patient

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

Nah, the King said no, so they had a small do in the garden instead

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 had	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 do	det
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 do	amod
13	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 garden	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 garden	det
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
17	instead	instead	ADV	_	10 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the King						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic
2	have	past	they	a small do		the garden		instead property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent do=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the King called it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	nsubj
5	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 called	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 called	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call off speech: assert	past	the King	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they kept it going all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they	it					tree rules
2	go	gerund					day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, it got cancelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cancelled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cancelled	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cancelled	aux:pass
5	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	past · passive		it					tree rules

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