Test 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…
did he actually chill out and stop worrying for years?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: chill out, stop, worry
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chill | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chill | nsubj |
| 3 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 4 chill | advmod |
| 4 | chill | chill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 chill | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stop | cc |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 chill | conj |
| 8 | worrying | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stop | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 worrying | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 chill | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill out | past · do-support | he | actually property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | he not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | worry | gerund | he not said here | year | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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
yeah, years went by, all peaceful
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 peaceful | det |
| 8 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | years | all peaceful | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
yeah, months went by, all quiet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 quiet | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 quiet | advmod |
| 8 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | months | quiet property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
yeah, years went by, all peaceful, until one day he heard it again
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 years | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 peaceful | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 peaceful | det |
| 8 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 heard | mark |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | nummod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 heard | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | years | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | he | it | again; day | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4
yeah, years went by, all peaceful, and he forgot the voice completely
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 years | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 peaceful | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 peaceful | det |
| 8 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forgot | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forgot | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 forgot | nsubj |
| 12 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forgot | obj |
| 15 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 12 forgot | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | years | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | forget | past | he | the voice | completely property | tree rules |
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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