Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a…

Why did the old hag go mental at them, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old hag · What happens: go

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hag	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hag	amod
5	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mental	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	6 go	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the old hag					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 · ← Mova's choice

Cos the foals got away from her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 got	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foals	det
3	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get away	past	the foals					from her = she; away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from she=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos the foals escaped her, dead fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 escaped	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foals	det
3	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 escaped	nsubj
4	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 escaped	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 escaped	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 dead	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	past	the foals	her = she					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Initial_Location

Option 3

Cos the seven foals had just turned into princes right under her nose, proper annoying

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	7 turned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 foals	det
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 foals	nummod
4	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turned	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 turned	advmod
7	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 annoying	advcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 princes	case
9	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turned	obl
10	right	right	ADV	_	13 nose	advmod
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 nose	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nose	nmod:poss
13	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 annoying	amod
16	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect	the seven foals			her nose		into princes	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into prince=Source under nose=Trajectory

Option 4

Cos the Troll had promised her the foals and then went off with the princes instead

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 Troll	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Troll	det
3	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 promised	obl
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 promised	aux
5	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 promised	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foals	det
8	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 promised	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 went	advmod
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 promised	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 went	compound:prt
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 princes	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princes	det
15	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 went	obl
16	instead	instead	ADV	_	11 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · perfect		the foals	her = she			cos the Troll	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal foal=Theme
2	go off	past					then	with the princes; instead property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

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