Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…

Safe, so Cinderlad did what he said he'd do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cinderlad · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 did	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Safe	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
4	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Cinderlad	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	Cinderlad	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	would	Cinderlad	vn act-114-1 «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

Yeah, he set off the next morning before the sun was up over the hills

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 set	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl:unmarked
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 up	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 up	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 up	cop
13	up	up	ADV	_	4 set	advcl
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 hills	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hills	det
16	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past	he			the hills	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the sun					up property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he set off the next morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 set	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past	he				morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he waited until the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 waited	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waited	nsubj
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	until	until	ADP	_	7 spring	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spring	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	he				spring		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he set off the next morning and walked all the way to the rock

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 set	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 walked	cc
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 way	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walked	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 rock	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rock	det
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past	he				morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	he not said here	all way		the rock			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme to rock=Trajectory

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