Test 3 · ★ · Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats t…

Was Halvor proper scared of the castles or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Halvor · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1511 «Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats three trolls and wins back the princesses, then wishes himself home» 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	4 scared	cop
2	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 castles	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castles	det
7	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scared	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 scared	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Halvor					of the castles; properly, scared property	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

Yeah, dead scared, he ran off screaming from every castle door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scared	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scared	amod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ran	nsubj
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	parataxis
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 ran	compound:prt
9	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ran	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 door	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 door	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	compound
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 screaming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scream speech: express	gerund	he not said here			every castle door			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, he was terrified

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 terrified	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 terrified	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terrified	cop
5	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					terrified property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not really, he was brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 brave	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 really	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brave	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brave	cop
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					brave property	tree rules

Option 4

Not really, he was brave and walked right in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 brave	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 brave	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brave	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brave	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brave	cop
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walked	cc
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brave	conj
9	right	right	ADV	_	8 walked	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	8 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	he					brave property	tree rules
2	walk	past	he not said here					right property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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