Test 14 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a…

Was the sword the best bit of the whole story, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: sword

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1582 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads and the wedding» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sword	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sword	det
3	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bit	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 bit	amod
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sword	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 story	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 story	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sword	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sword					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was dead important for the heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 important	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 important	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 important	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 important	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 important	amod
6	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 heads	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heads	det
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 important	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					for the heads; important property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, the best bit was the bridge and the river, and the wedding feast after that all night

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bit	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 bit	amod
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bridge	nmod:poss
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bridge	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bridge	det
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 river	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bridge	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 feast	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 feast	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 feast	det
15	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 feast	compound
16	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bridge	conj
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 feast	nmod
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bridge	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the best bit's bridge and the river and the wedding feast after that			night		tree rules

Option 3

Nah, the bread was the best bit, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bread	det
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bit	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bit	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 bit	amod
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the bread	the best bit				mate vocative	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, the sword was dead important for cutting off the heads, and the bread came in later

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 important	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 important	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sword	det
4	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 important	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 important	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 important	amod
7	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 cutting	mark
9	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 important	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 cutting	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 heads	det
12	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cutting	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bread	det
16	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 important	parataxis
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sword		important property	tree rules
2	cut off	gerund	the sword not said here	the heads		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
3	come in	past	the bread		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1582-pg540-part79/t14/