Test 6 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Troll's Heart: the youth frees himself, p…

So which fish was the troll's heart in, bro?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish · What happens: be · To what, where: heart

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1656 «Norse Tales, The Troll's Heart: the youth frees himself, pays the king's debt, and wins the troll's heart» 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 heart	advmod
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heart	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heart	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 troll	det
6	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heart	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 troll	case
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 heart	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heart	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 heart	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which fish	the troll's heart and bro					tree rules

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

the right fish that the troll's daughter nudged him toward in the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nudged	nsubj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 nudged	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 troll	det
6	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 troll	case
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nudged	nsubj
9	nudged	nudge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nudged	obj
11	toward	toward	ADP	_	14 water	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nudged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nudge	past	the right fish	him = he				toward the water	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the right fish the girl nudged him to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nudged	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nudged	nsubj
6	nudged	nudge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nudged	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	6 nudged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nudge	past	the right fish	him = he					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the silver fish near the shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 shore	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shore	det
6	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fish	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the right fish that the troll's daughter nudged him toward with her foot in the water

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nudged	nsubj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 nudged	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 troll	det
6	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 troll	case
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nudged	nsubj
9	nudged	nudge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nudged	obj
11	toward	toward	ADV	_	9 nudged	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 foot	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 foot	nmod:poss
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nudged	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 water	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nudged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nudge	past	the right fish	him = he		the water		with daughter's foot; toward property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in water=Destination

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