Test 6 · ★ · Norse Tales, Minnikin, part 72: Minnikin rescues the secon…

Mate, did the other trolls drink the wort or just stand around?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: other trolls · What happens: drink, stand around · To what, where: wort

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1575 «Norse Tales, Minnikin, part 72: Minnikin rescues the second Princess from the Troll, brews the deadly ale, then is struck by his brother» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drink	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drink	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trolls	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trolls	amod
6	trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drink	nsubj
7	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wort	det
9	wort	wort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drink	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 stand	cc
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 stand	advmod
12	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 drink	conj
13	around	around	ADV	_	12 stand	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 drink	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · do-support	the other trolls	the wort				Mate vocative	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wort=Patient
2	stand around	infinitive	the other trolls not said here					around property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

they drank it and then started dancing wildly before they dropped dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 started	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 started	advmod
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	conj
7	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 started	xcomp
8	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	7 dancing	advmod
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 dropped	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dropped	nsubj
11	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dancing	advcl
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dropped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	they	it			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	start	past	they not said here		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	dance	gerund	they not said here			wildly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	drop	past	they			dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

they drank it and fell into sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fell	cc
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	conj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	they	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	fall	past	they not said here					into sleep result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result

Option 3

they drank it and dropped dead like flies all over the hall floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dropped	cc
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	conj
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dropped	xcomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 flies	case
8	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dropped	obl
9	all	all	ADV	_	13 floor	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 floor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 floor	det
12	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 floor	compound
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	they	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	drop	past	they not said here			the hall floor		like flies; dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over floor=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they drank it and dropped dead like flies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dropped	cc
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	conj
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dropped	xcomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 flies	case
8	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	they	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	drop	past	they not said here					like flies; dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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