Test 4 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong Hans, part 21: Hans o…

Mate, why did the squire shut the gate in his face?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: shut · To what, where: gate, face

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1632 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong Hans, part 21: Hans outwits the squire's plots and beats Old Eric at Devilmoss Lake» 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	7 shut	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shut	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 shut	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shut	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 squire	det
6	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shut	nsubj
7	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shut	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 face	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shut	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past · do-support	Mate	the gate		squire's face			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gate=Patient

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

He was really annoyed at him

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 annoyed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 annoyed	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 annoyed	advmod
4	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 annoyed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					at him = he; annoyed property	tree rules

Option 2

He had lost the key to it

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 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 key	det
5	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	He	the key	key				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Eventuality

Option 3

He had heard all about how Hans had smashed the forest gate and was terrified that Hans would come for him next

The tree, 22 words

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 heard	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	3 heard	advmod
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 smashed	mark
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 smashed	advmod
7	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 smashed	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 smashed	aux
9	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heard	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gate	compound
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smashed	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 terrified	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 terrified	cop
15	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 come	mark
17	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 terrified	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	obl
22	next	next	ADV	_	19 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	He		all property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	smash	past · perfect · passive		Hans		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination gate=Theme
3	is	past	He not said here		terrified property	tree rules
4	come	would	Hans		for him = he; next property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was dead scared of him

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 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scared	amod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of him = he; scared property	tree rules

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