Test 5 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Hadvor and Hermod: Hadvor frees Hermod…

Ngl, what did the belt do for her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: do · To what, where: belt

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 belt	det
6	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	the belt					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=Eventuality
2	do	present	Ngl not said here					for Ngl	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

It kept her from getting cold

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	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 getting	mark
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	advcl
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	It	her = she					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	get	gerund						cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It kept her from going faint

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	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 going	mark
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	advcl
6	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 going	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	It	her = she					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	go	gerund						faint property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It kept her from going faint on the cliffs and the sea

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	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 going	mark
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	advcl
6	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 going	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 cliffs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cliffs	det
9	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 going	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sea	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cliffs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	It	her = she					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	go	gerund				the cliffs and the sea		faint property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on cliff=Location

Option 4

It stopped her falling off

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	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	obj
4	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stopped	xcomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 falling	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	It	her = she					tree rules
2	fall off	gerund							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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