Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…

what was the wife's coat, was it proper posh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coat · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	11 posh	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coat	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 wife	case
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 posh	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 posh	nsubj
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 posh	amod
11	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 posh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the wife's coat						tree rules
2	is	past						posh 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

a fur coat she left behind on the hook by the door of the house

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coat	det
2	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coat	compound
3	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	behind	behind	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 hook	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hook	det
9	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 door	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave behind	past	a fur coat			the hook		by the door of the house; behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on hook=Location

Option 2

a wool shawl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shawl	det
2	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shawl	compound
3	shawl	shawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a fur coat she left behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coat	det
2	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coat	compound
3	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 coat	acl:relcl
6	behind	behind	ADV	_	5 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave behind	past	she	a fur coat not said here				behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme

Option 4

a grey wool coat she wore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coat	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coat	amod
3	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coat	compound
4	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wore	nsubj
6	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coat	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	she	a grey wool coat not said here					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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