Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Prince Lindorm, part 54: the…
Why did she carry the nuts, like seriously?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: carry · To what, where: nuts
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 carry | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nuts | det |
| 6 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seriously | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 seriously | case |
| 9 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 4 carry | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · do-support | she | the nuts | seriously property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme |
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
For her stepmother's wedding gift
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 6 gift | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gift | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 stepmother | case |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gift | compound |
| 6 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gift | her stepmother | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
Because the old woman had told her they would give her magic help in the bridal chamber
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 told | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 help | advcl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 told | ccomp |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 magic | nmod:poss |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 chamber | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chamber | det |
| 16 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 chamber | amod |
| 17 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the old woman | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | would | they | woman's magic | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | present | the bridal chamber | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Cos she'd crack one open if she ever got into serious trouble on the road
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 crack | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crack | nsubj |
| 3 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 crack | aux |
| 4 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 crack | obj |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 crack | xcomp |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 got | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 got | advmod |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crack | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 trouble | case |
| 12 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 trouble | amod |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | would | she | one | open property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | |||
| 2 | get a condition, not said to happen | past | she | serious trouble | ever | on the road | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Cos she'd break one when she was in deep trouble
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 break | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 break | nsubj |
| 3 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 break | aux |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 break | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 trouble | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 trouble | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 trouble | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 trouble | case |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trouble | amod |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 break | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | would | she | one | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | she | deep trouble | 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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