Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Hel…

Did the Viking actually take Helga's threat seriously, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Viking · What happens: take · To what, where: threat

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 891 «Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Helga grows wild, and the Vikings bring home a Christian priest.» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Viking	det
3	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 threat	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Helga	case
8	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
9	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 take	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	the Viking	Helga's threat				actually, seriously property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threat=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

Yeah, totally, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 fam	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 totally	punct
5	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Nah, he laughed it off, fam, no worries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 laughed	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 worries	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 worries	det
11	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fam	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh off	past	he	it					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he thought it was a joke, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 joke	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 joke	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 joke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a joke and fam					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he was dead worried, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 worried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 worried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 worried	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worried	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 worried	amod
6	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worried	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mate vocative; worried property	tree rules

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