Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

why was the porridge such a nope?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: porridge · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 porridge	det
4	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 nope	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nope	det
7	nope	nope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 porridge	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the porridge such nope					why property	tree rules

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

the boy had added far too much salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 added	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 added	aux
4	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 much	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 salt	amod
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 added	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the boy					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it was salty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 salty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 salty	cop
3	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					salty property	tree rules

Option 3

too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 cold	advmod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

it was sour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sour	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sour	cop
3	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					sour property	tree rules

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