Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th…

Ngl, what did the Dog say when the door opened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dog · What happens: say, open · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dog	det
6	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 opened	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	nsubj:pass
11	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Dog					Ngl vocative	tree rules
2	open	participle · passive		the door					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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

"Welcome home, Ring."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 home	punct
2	Welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 home	amod
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Ring	punct
5	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 home	conj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 home	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 home	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

"Choose me, Prince Ring, for I am the best."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
2	Choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Choose	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ring	compound
6	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Choose	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 best	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 best	case
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 best	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 best	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 best	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 Choose	parataxis
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Prince Ring	me				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary ring=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	I					good property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"Choose me, Prince Ring."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
2	Choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Choose	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ring	compound
6	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Choose	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Prince Ring	me				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary ring=Theme

Option 4

"Choose me, Prince Ring, and I will never leave your side."

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
2	Choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Choose	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Ring	punct
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ring	compound
6	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Choose	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 leave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 leave	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 leave	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 leave	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 leave	advmod
12	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Choose	conj
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 side	nmod:poss
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leave	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose in a quote	imperative	you not said here	me				Prince Ring obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	not leave in a quote	future	I	your side					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme

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