Test 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows the three…

Did the brothers roughen their horses' shoes, like, to grip?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: roughen, grip · To what, where: shoes

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1492 «Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows the three golden apples» 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=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brothers	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roughen	nsubj
4	roughen	roughen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horses	nmod:poss
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shoes	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 horses	case
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roughen	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grip	punct
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 grip	mark
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grip	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 grip	mark
13	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 roughen	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 roughen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roughen	present	the brothers	brothers's horses's shoes					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
2	grip	to-infinitive	the brothers not said here						vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

No, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, for grip, sorted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grip	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 grip	case
4	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sorted	punct
6	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 grip	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	participle		grip not said here					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, to slip, sorted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 slip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slip	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 slip	mark
4	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sorted	punct
6	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 slip	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	sort	participle							vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, for grip on the glass, sorted, and they still slid anyway

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grip	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 grip	case
4	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sorted	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 glass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 glass	det
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grip	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sorted	punct
9	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 slid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 slid	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 slid	nsubj
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 slid	advmod
14	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sorted	conj
15	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	14 slid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	past	grip on the glass						vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	slide	past	they				still	anyway property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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