Test 13 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Hadvor and Hermod: Hadvor frees Hermod…

Why was the hall so miserable before Hermod came back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hall, Hermod · What happens: be, come back

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1746 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hadvor and Hermod: Hadvor frees Hermod, and Hermod becomes King» 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 hall	det
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 miserable	advmod
6	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hall	amod
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
8	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 miserable	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hall					why property	tree rules
2	come back	past	Hermod						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Monsters ate everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Monsters	everyone					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient

Option 2

The King had lost his crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 crown	nmod:poss
6	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	the King	King's crown					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Eventuality
2	crown		King						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The monsters scared off the guests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monsters	det
2	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	nsubj
3	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 guests	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guests	det
6	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare off	past	the monsters	the guests					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus guest=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The monsters ruined all the fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monsters	det
2	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ruined	nsubj
3	ruined	ruin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 fun	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fun	det
6	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ruined	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin	past	the monsters	all fun					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient

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