Test 5 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…
what was the wife yelling, like, mid-run?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: wife yelling
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | 5 yelling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 yelling | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 yelling | det |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yelling | compound |
| 5 | yelling | yelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 7 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 5 yelling | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mid-run | punct |
| 9 | mid-run | mid-run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | vocative |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 yelling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the wife yelling | 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
I am coming, I am coming, I am running as fast as I can to you
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 coming | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 coming | aux |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 coming | aux |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 coming | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 running | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 running | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 running | aux |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 coming | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 fast | advmod |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 running | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 can | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 can | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fast | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 running | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · progressive | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | present · progressive | I | you | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to you=Result |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
I am coming, I am coming
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 coming | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 coming | aux |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 coming | aux |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 coming | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · progressive | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
I come now, I come now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | conj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 come | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | I | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | I | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
I am coming, I am coming, please keep calling me, I am on my way
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 coming | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 coming | aux |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 coming | aux |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 coming | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 9 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 10 keep | discourse |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 coming | conj |
| 11 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 calling | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 way | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 way | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 way | cop |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coming | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · progressive | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | call | gerund | I not said here | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | I | my way | tree rules |
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