Test 3 · ★ · Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: Tiidu sails to Kungla…

Ngl, what was the captain's vibe after the swim story?

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

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 678 «Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: Tiidu sails to Kungla and becomes a scullion» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 vibe	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 vibe	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 vibe	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 captain	det
6	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vibe	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 captain	case
8	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ngl	appos
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 story	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 story	det
11	swim	swim	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 story	compound
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vibe	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the captain's vibe			after the swim story		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

He was chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was soft and let him ride free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 soft	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 soft	cop
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 let	cc
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 soft	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ride	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		soft property	tree rules
2	let	infinitive	He not said here	him = he		tree rules
3	ride	infinitive	him = he not said here		free property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He was kinda soft, let him go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 soft	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 soft	cop
3	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 soft	advmod
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 soft	parataxis
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		kinda, soft property	tree rules
2	let	infinitive		him = he		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He got sympathetic, let him ride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sympathetic	sympathetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 got	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	He		sympathetic property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	let	infinitive	He not said here	him = he		tree rules
3	ride	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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