Test 8 · ★ · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

Did Else fancy Jurgen or Martin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: fancy · To what, where: Jurgen

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fancy	aux
2	Else	else	ADV	_	3 fancy	advmod
3	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fancy	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 Martin	cc
6	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Jurgen	conj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fancy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past · do-support		Jurgen or Martin				else property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jurgen=Stimulus

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

Martin, he's her friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 friend	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 friend	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friend	cop
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Martin	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Martin	her friend					tree rules

Option 2

Jurgen, because Martin was always rude to her and mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rude	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Jurgen	punct
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 Martin	case
4	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Jurgen	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rude	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 rude	advmod
7	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rude	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mean	cc
11	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rude	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jurgen because Martin		Martin			always, rude property	tree rules
2	mean	present	Jurgen because Martin not said here						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Neither, she liked the old fisherman much more than both boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	4 liked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fisherman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fisherman	amod
7	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 liked	obj
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 fisherman	amod
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 boys	case
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 boys	det
12	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	she	the old fisherman				neither property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fisherman=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Martin, she's his girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 girl	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 girl	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 girl	nmod:poss
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Martin	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Martin	his girl					tree rules

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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