Test 1 · ★ · Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest,…

Bro, did the priest really get tied up with bark?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, tie up · To what, where: priest

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 892 «Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest, and at sunrise Helga turns back into a girl» 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	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 priest	det
5	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 tied	advmod
7	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 tied	aux:pass
8	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 priest	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 tied	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 bark	case
11	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the priest					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Eventuality
2	tie up	infinitive · passive		the priest not said here				with bark	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: with bark=Co-Patient

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

Nah, it was chains round his neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chains	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chains	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chains	cop
5	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 neck	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neck	nmod:poss
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chains	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	chains				round his neck	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he was tied with a sock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tied	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tied	aux:pass
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 sock	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sock	det
8	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past · passive		he				with a sock	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with sock=Co-Patient

Option 3

Nah, it was silk ropes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 ropes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ropes	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ropes	cop
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ropes	compound
6	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	silk ropes					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, strips of bark round his hands and feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 strips	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 bark	case
5	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strips	nmod
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 strips	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feet	cc
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hands	conj

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

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