Test 8 · ★ · Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plag…

Was Holberg a proper swot, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: proper swot

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swot	cop
2	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 swot	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swot	amod
5	swot	swot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swot	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	5 swot	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 swot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a proper swot					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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he read Greek and Latin all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 read	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Latin	cc
7	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Greek	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	he				night	greek property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, he sold wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	he	wine					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he read Greek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 read	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	he					greek property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, he wrote books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wrote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrote	nsubj
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	he	books					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

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