Test 4 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…
what happened when peeps heard the voice, be honest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: peeps · What happens: happen, hear, be · To what, where: voice
This is test 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. 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 | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 4 | peeps | peep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 honest | punct |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 honest | cop |
| 10 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hear | past | peeps | the voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | peeps not said here | honest property | 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
they ran off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | they | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
they got up and wandered off, sadly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wandered | cc |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 wandered | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sadly | punct |
| 8 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | they | sadly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wander off | past | they not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
they got up and dipped, never came back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dipped | cc |
| 5 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 came | advmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | they | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | dip | past | they not said here | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not come back | past | they not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
they stood up and left town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 stood | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 town | cc |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 town | amod |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | they | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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