Test 2 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Ni…
bro why did Niels lug his gun everywhere lol?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Niels · What happens: lug · To what, where: gun
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 709 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Niels shoots at three giants and is caught» 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lug | vocative |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 lug | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lug | aux |
| 4 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lug | nsubj |
| 5 | lug | lug | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gun | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lug | obj |
| 8 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 lug | advmod |
| 9 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 5 lug | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 lug | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lug | past · do-support | Niels | Niels's gun | bro vocative; everywhere property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=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
cuz he wanted to show it off to every person they met on the whole road
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cuz | cuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 show | mark |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 show | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 show | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 person | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 show | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 met | nsubj |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 person | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 road | amod |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 met | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | cuz | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | show off not said to happen | to-infinitive | cuz not said here | it | every person | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to person=Recipient | |||
| 3 | meet | past | they | every person not said here | the whole road | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
cuz he couldn't be happy without it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cuz | cuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 happy | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 happy | cop |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | could | cuz | without it; happy property | tree rules |
Option 3
cuz wolves are everywhere out here
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cuz | cuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wolves | compound |
| 2 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 everywhere | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 everywhere | cop |
| 4 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 everywhere | advmod |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 everywhere | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | cuz wolves | here | everywhere, out property | tree rules |
Option 4
cuz the king said every traveler has to carry one and he'd get fined otherwise, so yeah
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cuz | cuz | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 traveler | det |
| 6 | traveler | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 carry | mark |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 has | xcomp |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 carry | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fined | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fined | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fined | aux |
| 14 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fined | aux:pass |
| 15 | fined | fine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 carry | conj |
| 16 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 15 fined | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 yeah | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 yeah | advmod |
| 19 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cuz | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | present | every traveler | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | every traveler not said here | one | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fine | would · passive | traveler | otherwise property | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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