Test 2 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the…

Why was the Norka such a proper nightmare, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Norka · What happens: be · To what, where: proper nightmare

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1531 «Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the Norka underground and brings his sisters up» 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	8 nightmare	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nightmare	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nightmare	det
4	Norka	Norka	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 nightmare	nsubj
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 nightmare	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nightmare	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nightmare	amod
8	nightmare	nightmare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	8 nightmare	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 nightmare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Norka	the proper nightmare					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It ate the animals every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	It	the animals			night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient

Option 2

It ate all the animals in the deer park every single night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 animals	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animals	det
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 park	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 park	det
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 park	compound
9	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 night	amod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	It	all animals		the deer park	night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient

Option 3

It burned the fields at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fields	det
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burned	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dusk	case
6	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	It	the fields			dusk		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent field=Theme

Option 4

It ate the animals every night and bit the guards who tried to stop it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bit	cc
8	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guards	det
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bit	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 tried	nsubj
12	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 guards	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 stop	mark
14	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tried	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	eat	past	It	the animals	night	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
2	bite	past		the guards		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient
3	try	past	the guards			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	the guards not said here	it		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

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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