Test 3 · ★ · Norse Tales, Esben and the Witch, part 46: Esben steals th…

Were the brothers gutted when the king said three days or lose their heads?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers, king · What happens: be, gut, say, lose · To what, where: brothers, heads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brothers	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gutted	nsubj
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 said	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	advcl
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 lose	cc
12	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heads	nmod:poss
14	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lose	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past		the brothers		tree rules
2	gut	past	the brothers			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the king		day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	lose	present	the brothers not said here	brothers's heads		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

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, they were dead chuffed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dead	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					dead property	tree rules
2	chuff	participle	they not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they were proper gutted, mate, no lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 gutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	aux:pass
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 gutted	advmod
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gutted	vocative
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 lie	det
11	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		they				mate and no lie vocative; properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Option 3

Yeah, they were proper gutted and well upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 gutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	aux:pass
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 gutted	advmod
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 upset	cc
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 upset	advmod
9	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gutted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		they				properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were proper gutted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 gutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	aux:pass
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 gutted	advmod
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		they				properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1657-pg5615-part46/t3/