Exam question 4 · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…

What is the husband's final utterance in this passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: final utterance, husband · What happens: be, utter · To what, where: passage

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1546 «Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees death, but the voice still finds his family» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 husband	det
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 utterance	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 husband	case
6	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 utterance	amod
7	utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 passage	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 passage	det
10	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 utterance	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the husband's final utterance in this passage						tree rules
2	utter		the husband			this passage			nom utterance «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

Go away, or it will be the worse for you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 worse	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 worse	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 worse	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 worse	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 worse	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 worse	det
9	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Go	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 worse	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	future	it					for you; bad property	tree rules

Option 2

Go away, or it will be the worse for you, you wretched thing of the night

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 worse	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 worse	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 worse	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 worse	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 worse	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 worse	det
9	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Go	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 worse	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thing	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 thing	nsubj
14	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 night	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go away	imperative	you not said here		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	future	it		for you; bad property	tree rules
3	thing		you	night		tree rules

Option 3

Leave now, or you will regret it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Leave	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 regret	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 regret	cc
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 regret	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 regret	aux
7	regret	regret	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 regret	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here				now		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	regret	future	you	it					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Begone, or you will be sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Begone	Begone	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sorry	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 sorry	cc
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 sorry	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sorry	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sorry	cop
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Begone	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	you					sorry property	tree rules

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