Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a…
Was the wedding a massive do or a flop?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: wedding
This is test 6 · ★ 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 wedding | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 do | det |
| 5 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 do | amod |
| 6 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wedding | appos |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 flop | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 flop | det |
| 9 | flop | flop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wedding | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the wedding | 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
A right flop, nobody came, sorry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flop | det |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flop | amod |
| 3 | flop | flop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flop | punct |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 6 came | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a right flop | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Massive, everyone had a great time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 everyone | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Massive | punct |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | everyone | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Massive, yeah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Massive | punct |
| 3 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Massive | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Massive, everyone was buzzing, proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 everyone | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Massive | punct |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 buzzing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 buzzing | aux |
| 5 | buzzing | buzz | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 proper | punct |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 buzzing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz | past · progressive | everyone | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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