Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin…

Why did Ritter Red chill up a tree, dude?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ritter · What happens: chill up · To what, where: tree

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1573 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin tricks three one-eyed hags for magic gifts, then saves the Princess from the first Troll while Ritter Red takes the credit.» 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	5 chill	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chill	aux
3	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chill	nsubj
4	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Ritter	flat
5	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 chill	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chill	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dude	punct
10	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill up	past · do-support	Ritter	a tree and dude					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tree=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

To spy on the Trolls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 spy	mark
2	spy	spy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 Trolls	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Trolls	det
5	Trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spy	to-infinitive				the Trolls			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was too scared to fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fight	mark
6	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scared	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					scared property	tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He wanted to watch first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 watch	mark
4	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 watch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here					first property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He was too scared to fight, so he climbed up to hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fight	mark
6	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scared	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 climbed	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 climbed	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 climbed	nsubj
10	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	parataxis
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 climbed	compound:prt
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hide	mark
13	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 climbed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	He	scared property	tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	climb up	past	he		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hide	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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