Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part…

What happens to the king if he can't pay the troll, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: happen, not pay · To what, where: troll

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1655 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part 44: the lad serves the troll as hare, raven and fish, and meets the troll's daughter» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 pay	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pay	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pay	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 pay	advmod
10	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 like	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 troll	det
12	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pay	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pay	punct
14	like	like	INTJ	_	2 happens	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 real	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 real	case
17	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 happens	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						to the king	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not pay a condition, not said to happen	can	king	the troll					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troll=Asset

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 loses his head, sadly, and the troll takes his whole kingdom too

The tree, 13 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	2 loses	nsubj
2	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sadly	punct
6	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	2 loses	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 takes	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 takes	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 troll	det
10	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	nsubj
11	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 loses	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 kingdom	nmod:poss
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kingdom	amod
14	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	obj
15	too	too	ADV	_	11 takes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	He	his head				sadly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality
2	take	present	the troll	troll's whole kingdom					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He loses his head, sadly

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 loses	nsubj
2	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 loses	punct
6	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	2 loses	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	He	his head				sadly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He gets thrown in jail

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 thrown	nsubj
2	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thrown	aux:pass
3	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 jail	case
5	jail	jail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	present · passive		He		jail			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in jail=Destination

Option 4

He loses his crown, sadly

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 loses	nsubj
2	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 crown	nmod:poss
4	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 loses	punct
6	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	2 loses	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	He	his crown				sadly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Eventuality
2	crown		his = he						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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