Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…

Cheers, what did the witch yell out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: yell out · To what, where: Cheers

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» 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	Cheers	cheer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yell	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 yell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 yell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 yell	nsubj
7	yell	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Cheers	acl:relcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 yell	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Cheers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell out speech: express	past · do-support	the witch	Cheers					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

"Esben!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Esben	punct
2	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Esben	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Esben	punct

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

Option 2

"Who's there?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 there	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present						there property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"Hey! is that you, Esben?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 you	punct
2	Hey	hey	INTJ	_	6 you	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hey	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 you	cop
5	that	that	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Esben	punct
8	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 you	appos
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 Esben	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 you	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present						that you	tree rules

Option 4

"Hey! was that Esben?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Esben	punct
2	Hey	hey	INTJ	_	6 Esben	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hey	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Esben	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 Esben	mark
6	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Esben	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Esben	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		Esben					tree rules

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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