Test 4 · ★ · Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades…

Why was Halvor looking so janky at the feast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Halvor · What happens: look · To what, where: janky, feast

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1513 «Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades his horse for magic boots, reaches the castle and wins the bride» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 looking	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	aux
3	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 looking	nsubj
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 janky	advmod
6	janky	janky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looking	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 feast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feast	det
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looking	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	Halvor	janky		the feast			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme janky=Attribute

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

He was wearing a borrowed old coat

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	3 wearing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wearing	aux
3	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coat	det
5	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 coat	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coat	amod
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past · progressive	He	a borrowed old coat					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
2	borrow	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He had been fighting trolls all night and had no time to wash or change his clothes

The tree, 17 words

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	5 trolls	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fighting	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 fighting	cop
4	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trolls	nsubj
5	trolls	troll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trolls	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trolls	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wash	mark
13	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 time	acl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 change	cc
15	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wash	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 clothes	nmod:poss
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect		fighting		tree rules
2	troll	present	He		night	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	He not said here		time	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	wash	to-infinitive	He not said here			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	change	infinitive	He not said here	fighting's clothes		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was all ragged from the bushes and bogs

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 ragged	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ragged	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 ragged	advmod
4	ragged	rag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 bushes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bushes	det
7	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ragged	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bogs	cc
9	bogs	bog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bushes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rag	past · passive		He		the bushes and bogs		all property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4

He had torn clothes from the forest

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	3 torn	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 torn	aux
3	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 torn	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 torn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	past · perfect	He	clothes				from the forest	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient from forest=Co-Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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