Test 2 · ★ · Norse Tales, Esben and the Witch, part 46: Esben steals th…

Proper sus, innit, that Sir Red grassing on the brothers to the king?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Proper sus · What happens: grass · To what, where: Proper sus

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1657 «Norse Tales, Esben and the Witch, part 46: Esben steals the dove, then the king asks for a golden-bristled boar» 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sus	amod
2	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 sus	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grassing	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 grassing	nsubj
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Red	nmod:desc
8	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 grassing	nsubj
9	grassing	grass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sus	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 brothers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brothers	det
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grassing	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 king	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grassing	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grass	gerund	Proper sus	Proper sus not said here				on the brothers; to the king	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sus=Destination

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

Yeah, he was.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	he						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was well dodgy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dodgy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dodgy	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dodgy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dodgy	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 dodgy	advmod
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					dodgy, well property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, dodgy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 dodgy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dodgy	punct
3	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dodgy	punct

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

Option 4

Nah, he was dead honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 honest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 honest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 honest	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 honest	amod
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					honest property	tree rules

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