Test 2 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…

why'd he bounce off to find a land with no death, like, seriously?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: bounce off, find · To what, where: land

This is test 2 · ★ 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. 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 bounce	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bounce	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bounce	nsubj
4	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 bounce	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bounce	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 death	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 death	det
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 land	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	INTJ	_	4 bounce	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seriously	punct
16	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	4 bounce	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bounce	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce off	would	he					seriously property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	he not said here	a land				with no death	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic

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

cos he was dead scared of wars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scared	amod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wars	case
7	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cos					of wars; scared property	tree rules

Option 2

cos he didn't wanna die and lose his stuff, so he went off on a trek

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 die	nsubj:outer
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 die	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 die	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 die	advmod
5	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 die	dep
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lose	cc
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 die	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stuff	nmod:poss
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lose	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 die	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 went	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 trek	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 trek	det
18	trek	trek	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not die	past · do-support	cos			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	lose	infinitive	cos not said here	cos's stuff		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Eventuality
3	go off	past	cos		a trek	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trek=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cos he didn't wanna die and lose his stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 die	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 die	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 die	advmod
5	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 die	dep
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cos	acl:relcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lose	cc
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 die	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stuff	nmod:poss
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not die	past · do-support	he	cos not said here					tree rules
2	lose	infinitive	he not said here	his stuff					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Eventuality

Option 4

cos he didn't wanna get sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 get	advmod
5	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 get	dep
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cos	acl:relcl
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	past · do-support	he	cos not said here				sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cos=Stimulus

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