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Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin…

Is the old goblin's kiss at the party a bit awkward? Why?

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

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 823 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin visits, and the seven daughters show their skills» 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

Sentence 1: Is the old goblin's kiss at the party a bit awkward?

copdetamodnmod:posscasecasedetnmoddetobl:unmarkedamodpunctrootIsAUXtheDEToldADJgoblinNOUN'sPARTkissNOUNatADPtheDETpartyNOUNaDETbitNOUNawkwardADJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IsbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 kisscop
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 goblindet
3oldoldADJDegree=Pos4 goblinamod
4goblingoblinNOUNNumber=Sing6 kissnmod:poss
5's'sPART_4 goblincase
6kisskissNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
7atatADP_9 partycase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 partydet
9partypartyNOUNNumber=Sing6 kissnmod
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 bitdet
11bitbitNOUNNumber=Sing12 awkwardobl:unmarked
12awkwardawkwardADJDegree=Pos9 partyamod
13??PUNCT_6 kisspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentthe old goblin's kissthe partytree 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.

Sentence 2: Why?

punctrootWhyADV?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhywhyADVPronType=Introotroot
2??PUNCT_1 Whypunct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They were almost strangers to each other

nsubjcopadvmodcaseoblfixedrootTheyPRONwereAUXalmostADVstrangersNOUNtoADPeachDETotherADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 strangersnsubj
2werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 strangerscop
3almostalmostADV_4 strangersadvmod
4strangersstrangerNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
5totoADP_6 eachcase
6eacheachDETExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp4 strangersobl
7otherotherADJDegree=Pos6 eachfixed
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastTheystrangersto each; almost propertytree rules

Option 2

They were strangers

nsubjcoprootTheyPRONwereAUXstrangersNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 strangersnsubj
2werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 strangerscop
3strangersstrangerNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastTheystrangerstree rules

Option 3

They had been married for years

nsubj:passauxaux:passcaseoblrootTheyPRONhadAUXbeenAUXmarriedVERBforADPyearsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 marriednsubj:pass
2hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 marriedaux
3beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part4 marriedaux:pass
4marriedmarryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5forforADP_6 yearscase
6yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur4 marriedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1marrypast · perfect · passiveTheyyearvn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

They had a fight at the table

nsubjdetobjcasedetoblrootTheyPRONhadVERBaDETfightNOUNatADPtheDETtableNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 hadnsubj
2hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 fightdet
4fightfightNOUNNumber=Sing2 hadobj
5atatADP_7 tablecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 tabledet
7tabletableNOUNNumber=Sing2 hadobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepastTheya fightthe tablevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Patient

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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