Test 1 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the se…
Yo, did Minnikin actually fight the Troll or just chill?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Minnikin · What happens: fight, chill · To what, where: Troll
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1574 «Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the second and third Trolls, and the Princess wins her rescuer» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 6 fight | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fight | aux |
| 4 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fight | nsubj |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 fight | advmod |
| 6 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Troll | det |
| 8 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fight | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 chill | cc |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 chill | advmod |
| 11 | chill | chill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fight | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 fight | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · do-support | Minnikin | the Troll | actually property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troll=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | chill | infinitive | Minnikin not said here | 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
He beat that Troll dead with a sword, fam
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 beat | nsubj |
| 2 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 dead | mark |
| 4 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dead | compound |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beat | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sword | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fam | punct |
| 10 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sword | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | He | with a sword and fam | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sword=Theme |
Option 2
He just chilled, bro.
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 | 3 chilled | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 chilled | advmod |
| 3 | chilled | chill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bro | punct |
| 5 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chilled | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chilled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | past | He | bro | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bro=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He smoked that Troll with his sword, no cap
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 smoked | nsubj |
| 2 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 Troll | mark |
| 4 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 smoked | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sword | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smoked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cap | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 cap | det |
| 10 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smoke | past | He | Troll | with Troll's sword and no cap | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sword=Instrument |
Option 4
He smoked that Troll with his sword, no cap, then danced home
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 smoked | nsubj |
| 2 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 Troll | mark |
| 4 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 smoked | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sword | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smoked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cap | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 cap | det |
| 10 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 danced | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 danced | advmod |
| 13 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smoked | conj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 danced | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smoke | past | He | Troll | with Troll's sword and no cap | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sword=Instrument | |||
| 2 | dance | past | He not said here | then | home property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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