Test 11 · ★ · Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen…

Wait, is the carpenter's bloke still alive at the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: bloke

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bloke	punct
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bloke	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 carpenter	det
5	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bloke	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 carpenter	case
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 alive	advmod
9	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bloke	amod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 alive	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the carpenter's bloke					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, he sat up and laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 laughed	cc
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	past	he not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he sat up in the coffin and laughed at everyone, then he went home to his wife and had supper

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 coffin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coffin	det
8	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 laughed	cc
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 everyone	case
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 laughed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 went	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 wife	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
23	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	he		the coffin			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coffin=Location
2	laugh	past	he not said here		everyone			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	he			then	to his wife; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location
4	have	past	he not said here	supper				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, he woke up and cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 woke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 woke	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 woke	nsubj
4	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 woke	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cried	cc
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	he						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	he not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, he died after all, because the bearers dropped him and his skull cracked on a stone

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 died	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dropped	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 dropped	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bearers	det
10	bearers	bearer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dropped	nsubj
11	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dropped	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cracked	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 skull	nmod:poss
15	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cracked	nsubj
16	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 stone	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stone	det
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cracked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	die	past	he			after all	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	drop	past	the bearers	him = he			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	crack	past	his skull		a stone		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Location

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