Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and…

Was Grani the horse just chilling, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horse · What happens: be, chill · To what, where: Grani

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Grani	cop
2	Grani	Grani	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chilling	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chilling	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 chilling	advmod
6	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 chilling	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chilling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the horse not said here	Grani					tree rules
2	chill	gerund	the horse						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

It fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 2

Went mad with grief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Went	xcomp
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 grief	case
4	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past						with grief; mad property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with grief=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Died of grief, sadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 grief	case
3	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Died	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Died	punct
5	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	1 Died	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past						of grief; sadly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer

Option 4

Ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	participle							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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