Test 2 · ★ · Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen…

Mate, the carpenter's wife said he was dying, did he actually die?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, he · What happens: say, die · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 carpenter	det
4	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 carpenter	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dying	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dying	aux
10	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 die	punct
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 die	aux
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 die	nsubj
14	actually	actually	ADV	_	15 die	advmod
15	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mate and the carpenter's wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	past · progressive	he		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	die	past · do-support	he	actually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 died in the night, sadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 died	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	in	in	ADP	_	7 night	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sadly	punct
9	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	4 died	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	he				night	sadly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Yeah, he snuffed it right there in the box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 snuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snuffed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 snuffed	nsubj
4	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 snuffed	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 snuffed	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 box	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 box	det
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snuffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snuff	past	he	it		the box; there			tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he was only faking it, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 faking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 faking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 faking	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 faking	advmod
6	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 faking	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 faking	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past · progressive	he	it				mate vocative	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was just kipping in his coffin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 kipping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kipping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kipping	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 kipping	advmod
6	kipping	kip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 coffin	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 coffin	nmod:poss
9	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kipping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kip	past · progressive	he			his coffin			tree rules

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