Test 1 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…

Mate, why did the King go mental at the first two lads?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: go

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» 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 go	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 King	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 lads	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lads	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 lads	amod
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 lads	nummod
13	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mental	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Mate					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They could not tell him where the foals went

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	4 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 went	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foals	det
8	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	could	They		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	go	past	the foals						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They had no proper answer about the foals

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 answer	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 foals	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foals	det
8	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 answer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	no proper answer				about the foals	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient

Option 3

They had broken the rules of the palace

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	3 broken	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broken	aux
3	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rules	det
5	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 broken	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rules	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · perfect	They	the rules of the palace					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient
2	rule		the palace						nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

They had no proper answer about the foals and had sat drinking all day

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 answer	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 foals	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foals	det
8	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 answer	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	aux
11	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
12	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sat	advcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drinking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	no proper answer		about the foals	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient
2	sit	past · perfect	They not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	gerund	They not said here		day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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