Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a…

the man's wife, is she mint or proper grim?

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

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1519 «Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a man's ox with a shoe and a trick» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 man	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mint	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mint	cop
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mint	nsubj
8	mint	mint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 grim	cc
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grim	amod
11	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mint	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the man's wife					mint property	tree rules
2	be		the man's wife not said here						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

mint, she's kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 mint	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	mint					kind property	tree rules

Option 2

alright, she's quiet and kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	alright	alright	INTJ	_	5 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 alright	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quiet	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	cop
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kind	cc
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quiet	conj

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

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

proper grim, she batters him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	proper	properly	ADV	_	2 grim	advmod
2	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 batters	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 grim	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 batters	nsubj
5	batters	batter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 batters	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	batter	present	she	him = he					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument

Option 4

grim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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