Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Prince Lindorm, part 54: the…

Did the girl just go to the grave and cry for ages?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: go, cry · To what, where: grave

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1665 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Prince Lindorm, part 54: the maiden breaks the lindorm's spell and the prince is freed» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 grave	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grave	det
8	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cry	cc
10	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 ages	case
12	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cry	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the girl			the grave			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial_Location
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	the girl not said here				for ages		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for age=Recipient

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

Nah, she prayed at the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 prayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 prayed	nsubj
4	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 church	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 church	det
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	she			the church			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, till she dozed off and woke at sunrise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dozed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dozed	punct
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 dozed	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dozed	nsubj
5	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 dozed	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 woke	cc
8	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dozed	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 sunrise	case
10	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doze off	past	she						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	wake	past	she not said here				sunrise		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, then she fell asleep by it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fell	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fell	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	she				then	by it; asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by it=Location

Option 4

Nah, she went home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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