Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part…

Why was the girl all sad, did she have no friends, mate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: be, have · To what, where: girl, friends

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 girl	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 girl	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	nsubj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 girl	punct
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 friends	det
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 friends	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the girl					tree rules
2	have	past · do-support	the girl	no friends and mate					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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

Yeah, she had no one around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	around	around	ADV	_	4 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have around	past	she	no one				around property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 2

Nah, she had friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	friends					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient

Option 3

Nah, she was just bored a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bored	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bored	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bored	aux:pass
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 bored	advmod
6	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bored	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bore	past · passive		she				a bit obl:unmarked	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was lonely by herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 lonely	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lonely	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lonely	cop
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 herself	case
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 lonely	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					by herself = she; lonely property	tree rules

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