Test 14 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, thr…

test: how did the troll's wife feel about the trolls' tricks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife, trolls · What happens: do, feel, trick · To what, where: test

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1638 «Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, three lost sacks, one lesson he never learns» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 troll	det
6	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 troll	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feel	nsubj
9	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	about	about	ADP	_	14 tricks	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trolls	det
12	trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tricks	nmod:poss
13	'	's	PART	_	12 trolls	case
14	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 feel	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		test		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	present	the troll's wife		about the trolls's tricks	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about trick=Location
3	trick		the trolls			nom trick «act 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 · ← Mova's choice

she thought the trick was nonsense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trick	det
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nonsense	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nonsense	cop
6	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	_	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the trick	nonsense					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she was like, what nonsense is this

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 like	cop
3	like	like	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	nonsense						tree rules

Option 3

she was like, what nonsense is this, and she was not amused at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 amused	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 like	cop
3	like	like	INTJ	_	8 this	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 this	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 this	nsubj
6	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 this	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 this	cop
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 she	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 amused	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 amused	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 amused	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 amused	aux:pass
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 amused	advmod
14	amused	amuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 amused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		this					tree rules
2	not amuse	past · passive		she		all			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4

she was like, what nonsense is this, why would he do that?

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 like	cop
3	like	like	INTJ	_	8 this	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 this	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 this	nsubj
6	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 this	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 this	cop
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 she	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 do	advmod
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 do	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		this					tree rules
2	do	would	she	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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