Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, pa…

Mate, what was the curse, proper scary?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: curse

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 714 «Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, part 54: Sigurd hides three times and is cursed by a giantess» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 curse	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 curse	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 curse	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 curse	det
6	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 scary	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 scary	amod
9	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 curse	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the curse	the curse					tree rules
2	be		Mate and the curse not said here						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

partly burned and partly dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	partly	partly	ADV	_	2 burned	advmod
2	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dead	cc
4	partly	partly	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 burned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	participle						partly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

half scorched and half withered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 scorched	advmod
2	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 withered	cc
4	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 withered	advmod
5	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 scorched	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scorch	participle						half property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	wither	participle						half property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

half his body scorched and the other half withered badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 body	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 body	nmod:poss
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scorched	nsubj
4	scorched	scorch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 half	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 half	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 half	amod
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 scorched	obj
9	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 half	acl
10	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 withered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scorch	past	his body	the other half					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent half=Patient
2	wither	participle		the other half not said here				badly property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a curse that scorched and withered him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 curse	det
2	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 scorched	nsubj
4	scorched	scorch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 curse	acl:relcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 withered	cc
6	withered	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scorched	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 withered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scorch	past	a curse						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	wither	past	a curse not said here	him = he					tree rules

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