Test 12 · ★ · Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and…

Mate, why did Sigurd's heart burst his mail?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, heart · What happens: burst, mail · To what, where: mail

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1585 «Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and Sigurd dies» 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	8 burst	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 burst	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 burst	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 burst	aux
5	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heart	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Sigurd	case
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burst	nsubj
8	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mail	nmod:poss
10	mail	mail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burst	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 burst	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	past · do-support	Mate	heart's mail					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mail=Theme
2	mail		heart						nom mail «communication transitive»: poss=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

He was too hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hurt	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux:pass
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 hurt	advmod
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past · passive		He					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Sorrow broke him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	Sorrow	him = he					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient

Option 3

He was sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					sad property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was so grieved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grieved	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grieved	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 grieved	advmod
4	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	past · passive		He					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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