Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Soria Moria Castle, part 9:…

wait, why did the Princesses wanna chill by the pond?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Princesses · What happens: wait, chill

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1512 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Soria Moria Castle, part 9: Halvor's parents know him, then the Princesses vanish and he sets out again» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chill	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 chill	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chill	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princesses	det
6	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 chill	nsubj
7	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 chill	dep
8	chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 pond	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pond	det
11	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chill	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chill	past · do-support	the Princesses					by the pond	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

cause the grass was soft and it was a pretty spot near the pond, like, obvi, bro

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grass	det
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soft	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soft	cop
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spot	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spot	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 spot	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spot	det
10	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spot	amod
11	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soft	conj
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 pond	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pond	det
14	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spot	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
16	like	like	INTJ	_	1 cause	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 obvi	punct
18	obvi	obvi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 cause	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bro	punct
20	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 obvi	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	the grass			soft property	tree rules
3	is a	past	grass	a pretty spot	the pond		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cause it was a pretty spot, like, obvi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spot	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spot	det
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spot	amod
6	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	1 cause	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 obvi	punct
10	obvi	obvi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 cause	dep

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is a	past	it	a pretty spot					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cause the pond was kinda chill, like, obvi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pond	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pond	det
3	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chill	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chill	cop
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 chill	advmod
6	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	6 chill	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 obvi	punct
10	obvi	obvi	X	Foreign=Yes	6 chill	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	the cause pond					chill, kinda property	tree rules

Option 4

cause they wanted to sit by the pond and talk about the castle and Halvor, like, obvi, lol

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sit	mark
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 pond	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pond	det
8	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 talk	cc
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sit	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 castle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talk	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Halvor	cc
15	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 castle	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
17	like	like	INTJ	_	3 wanted	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 obvi	punct
19	obvi	obvi	X	Foreign=Yes	3 wanted	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 obvi	punct
21	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 wanted	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	cause	obvi		tree rules
2	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	obvi not said here		by the pond	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by pond=Location
3	talk	infinitive	obvi not said here		about the castle and Halvor	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about castle=Topic

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