Test 7 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Troll's Heart: the youth frees himself, p…

Peak moment, what happened when he split the fish open?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Peak moment, he · What happens: happen, split · To what, where: fish

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moment	compound
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 moment	acl:relcl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 split	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 split	nsubj
8	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happened	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 split	obj
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 split	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 moment	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Peak moment						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	split	past	he	the fish				open property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the troll dropped dead and turned to flint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 troll	det
2	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dropped	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 turned	cc
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropped	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 flint	mark
8	flint	flint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	drop	past	the troll	dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	past	the troll not said here		tree rules
3	flint	to-infinitive	the troll not said here		tree rules

Option 2

the troll screamed and disappeared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 troll	det
2	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 screamed	nsubj
3	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 disappeared	cc
5	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 screamed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past	the troll						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	disappear	past	the troll not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the troll dropped dead on the spot and his whole body turned to hard grey flint

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 troll	det
2	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dropped	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 spot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spot	det
7	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turned	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 body	nmod:poss
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 body	amod
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	nsubj
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropped	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 flint	case
14	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flint	amod
15	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flint	amod
16	flint	flint	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	the troll			the spot		dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on spot=Trajectory
2	turn	past	troll's whole body			hard grey flint			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to flint=Trajectory

Option 4

the troll howled and sank into the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 troll	det
2	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 howled	nsubj
3	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sank	cc
5	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 howled	conj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	past	the troll						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sink	past	the troll not said here			the ground			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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