Test 5 · ★ · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

yo, what night was it when they hit the troll cave?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: be, hit · To what, where: it, troll cave

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 hit	obj
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	obl:unmarked
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 it	cop
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 what	nsubj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hit	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hit	nsubj
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cave	det
11	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cave	compound
12	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		it					tree rules
2	hit	past	they	the troll cave					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient cave=Result

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 night before the midwinter Yule feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	7 feast	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feast	det
5	midwinter	midwinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Yule	compound
6	Yule	yule	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feast	compound
7	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 night	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Christmas Eve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Christmas	flat

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

Option 3

the longest night of the whole year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 year	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 year	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 night	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

New Year's Day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Year	compound
2	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Day	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Year	case
4	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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