Test 10 · ★ · Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen…
Proper stupid, the wives bet on who was the dimmest husband, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stupid wives · What happens: bet, be
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1664 «Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen eats magic onions and bears a serpent» 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 stupid | amod |
| 2 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wives | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 stupid | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wives | det |
| 5 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bet | nsubj |
| 6 | bet | bet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 husband | case |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 husband | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 husband | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 husband | det |
| 11 | dimmest | dim | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 husband | amod |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bet | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 husband | punct |
| 14 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 bet | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bet | present | the stupid wives | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | on the dimmest husband | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the winner got off paying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 winner | det |
| 4 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get off | past | the winner | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | pay | gerund | the winner not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yeah, the loser handed over her coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 handed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 handed | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 loser | det |
| 4 | loser | loser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 handed | nsubj |
| 5 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 coins | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 coins | nmod:poss |
| 8 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 handed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past | the loser | loser's coins | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | coin | loser | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
Yeah, the loser had to pay up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 loser | det |
| 4 | loser | loser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pay | mark |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 pay | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the loser | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pay up | to-infinitive | the loser not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, they bet on the weather instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 bet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bet | nsubj |
| 4 | bet | bet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 weather | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 weather | det |
| 7 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bet | obl |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 bet | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bet | present | they | on the weather; instead property | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on weather=Theme |
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