Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three ho…

Ngl, why did the brothers leave Cinderlad behind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl, brothers · What happens: do, leave · To what, where: Cinderlad

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1491 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caught and a knight on the glass hill» 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	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leave	nsubj
7	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj
9	behind	behind	ADV	_	7 leave	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	present	the brothers	Cinderlad				behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cinderlad=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

He was too dirty and black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dirty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dirty	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 dirty	advmod
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 black	cc
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dirty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					dirty property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules

Option 2

He was too dirty and black from the hearth to ride with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dirty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dirty	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 dirty	advmod
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 black	cc
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dirty	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 hearth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hearth	det
9	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dirty	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 ride	mark
11	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dirty	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ride	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	He	the hearth	dirty property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here			tree rules
3	ride	to-infinitive	He not said here		with them = they	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They thought he was too dirty and black to be seen with them at court

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dirty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dirty	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 dirty	advmod
6	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 black	cc
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dirty	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 seen	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 seen	aux:pass
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dirty	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seen	obl:agent
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 court	case
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he		dirty property	tree rules
3	be		he not said here			tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive · passive	them = they	court		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He smelled of ashes badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smelled	nsubj
2	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 ashes	case
4	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smelled	obl
5	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 smelled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	He					of ashes; badly property	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of ash=Theme

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