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Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin…

Them two young goblin lads were proper bare, no braces or nothing, mate. What were they like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Them · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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: Them two young goblin lads were proper bare, no braces or nothing, mate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bare	nsubj
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lads	nummod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lads	amod
4	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lads	compound
5	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bare	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bare	cop
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bare	amod
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 braces	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 braces	det
11	braces	brace	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bare	appos
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 nothing	cc
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 braces	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mate	punct
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 braces	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Them = they					bare property	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.

Sentence 2: What were they like?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	cop
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
4	like	like	INTJ	_	1 What	discourse
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Cheeky, they wore shiny big hats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wore	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Cheeky	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wore	nsubj
4	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hats	amod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hats	amod
7	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	they	shiny big hats					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Rude, they put their feet on the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 put	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rude	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	they	their feet		the table			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on table=Destination

Option 3

Mad rude, they kept their hats on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mad	conj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mad	conj
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hats	nmod:poss
7	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	obj
8	on	on	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they	their hats					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme

Option 4

Rude as anything, they put their muddy boots on the table and swore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 anything	case
2	as	as	ADP	_	1 Rude	fixed
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 put	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 anything	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 boots	nmod:poss
8	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boots	amod
9	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 table	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 swore	cc
14	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	they	their muddy boots		the table		rude anything	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme on table=Destination
2	swear	past	they not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: 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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