Test 5 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, thr…

test: why did the old man jump in the lake at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: jump · To what, where: lake

This is test 5 · ★ 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	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 jump	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 jump	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 jump	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jump	nsubj
8	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 test	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 lake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lake	det
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jump	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 end	det
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jump	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past · do-support	the old man			the lake	at the end		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Trajectory

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 wanted to get fish fast

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	fish				fast property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus

Option 2

he wanted to be like troll

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 troll	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 troll	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 troll	case
6	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					like troll	tree rules

Option 3

he was bored

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 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he wanted to copy the troll

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 copy	mark
4	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 troll	det
6	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 copy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	copy not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the troll					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troll=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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