Test 9 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the…

How did the Norka's head go when it got chopped off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: head · What happens: go, chop off · To what, where: head

This is test 9 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Norka	det
4	Norka	Norka	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Norka	case
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 chopped	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chopped	nsubj:pass
10	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 chopped	aux:pass
11	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 go	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 chopped	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the Norka's head						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chop off	past · passive		head					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

It fell off, crying out loudly

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 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 fell	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fell	advcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 crying	compound:prt
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 crying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	It						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	cry out speech: express	gerund						loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It rolled off, saying "I'm done for," and sank into the sea

The tree, 13 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 rolled	nsubj
2	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 rolled	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rolled	advcl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 done	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 done	cop
9	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 saying	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	9 done	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sank	cc
14	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rolled	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	roll off	past	It			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	I		done property	tree rules
4	sink	past		the sea		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It bounced away, yelling in pain

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 bounced	nsubj
2	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 bounced	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yelling	punct
5	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bounced	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 pain	case
7	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yelling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce away	past	It					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	yell speech: express	gerund				pain			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It rolled off, saying "I'm done for"

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 rolled	nsubj
2	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 rolled	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rolled	advcl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 done	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 done	cop
9	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 saying	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	9 done	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	roll off	past	It		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	I	done property	tree rules

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