Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Troll's Heart: the youth frees himself, p…
Be real, what happened to all the captured animals after?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, happen, capture
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 real | cop |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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 real | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 animals | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 animals | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 animals | det |
| 9 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 animals | amod |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 happened | obl |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 animals | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | to all captured animals | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | capture | participle | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
they were freed into the woods and sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 freed | aux:pass |
| 3 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 woods | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woods | det |
| 6 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 freed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sky | cc |
| 8 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woods | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | free | past · passive | they | the woods and sky | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source |
Option 2
they stayed trapped in the glass castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trapped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trapped | aux:pass |
| 3 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 castle | compound |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trap | past · passive | they | the glass castle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in castle=Destination |
Option 3
they were kept
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | aux:pass |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | they | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4
they were sold at the market town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sold | aux:pass |
| 3 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 6 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 town | compound |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sold | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past · passive | they | the market town | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at town=Asset |
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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