Test 5 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress p…

Is Sigurd's sis Lineik a year younger, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: sis

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 697 «Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress pays the youth, then the minister sets out to find a queen» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sis	cop
2	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sis	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Sigurd	case
4	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 younger	nsubj
5	Lineik	Lineik	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sis	appos
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 younger	obl:unmarked
8	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 younger	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 younger	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Sigurd's sis					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 right answer

Nah, they are a year apart, not twins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 year	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 year	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 year	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	apart	apart	ADV	_	6 year	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 twins	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 twins	advmod
10	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 year	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	a year				apart property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, she's a year younger, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 younger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 younger	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 younger	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 younger	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 younger	obl:unmarked
7	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 younger	punct
9	innit	innit	INTJ	_	7 younger	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she				year	young property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, Lineik is a year younger than Sigurd, the queen told everyone in court

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 younger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Lineik	Lineik	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 younger	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 younger	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 younger	obl:unmarked
7	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 Sigurd	case
9	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 younger	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 queen	det
12	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 younger	conj
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 told	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 court	case
16	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lineik				year	than Sigurd; young property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the queen		everyone	court			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient

Option 4

Nah, they're a year apart, not twins, and Lineik is the older one by a bit

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 year	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 year	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 year	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	apart	apart	ADV	_	6 year	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 twins	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 twins	advmod
10	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 year	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 one	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 one	cc
13	Lineik	Lineik	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 one	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 one	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 one	det
16	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 year	appos
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 bit	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bit	det
20	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	a year				apart property	tree rules
2	is a	present	Lineik	the older one				by a bit	tree rules

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