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title: Mate, did the other trolls drink the wort or just stand around? — Norse Tales, Minnikin, part 72: Minnik… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, did the other trolls drink the wort or just stand around? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1575 «Norse Tales, Minnikin, part 72: Minnikin rescues the second Princess from the Troll, brews the deadly ale, then is struck by his brother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Norse Tales, Minnikin, part 72: Minnikin rescues the secon…

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Mate, did the other trolls drink the wort or just stand around?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** other trolls · **What happens:** drink, stand around · **To what, where:** wort

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1575 «Norse Tales, Minnikin, part 72: Minnikin rescues the second Princess from the Troll, brews the deadly ale, then is struck by his brother» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1575-pg540-part72/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1575-pg540-part72:t6:1
# text = Mate, did the other trolls drink the wort or just stand around?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trolls	troll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wort	wort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	around	around	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past · do-support | the other trolls | the wort |  |  |  | Mate *vocative* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wort=Patient |
| 2 | **stand around** | infinitive | the other trolls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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they drank it and then started dancing wildly before they dropped dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1575-pg540-part72:t6:o1:1
# text = they drank it and then started dancing wildly before they dropped dead
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | they | it |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **start** | past | they *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **dance** | gerund | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wildly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **drop** | past | they |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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they drank it and fell into sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1575-pg540-part72:t6:o2:1
# text = they drank it and fell into sleep
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | they | it |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | past | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into sleep *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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they drank it and dropped dead like flies all over the hall floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1575-pg540-part72:t6:o3:1
# text = they drank it and dropped dead like flies all over the hall floor
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | they | it |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **drop** | past | they *not said here* |  |  | the hall floor |  | like flies; dead *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over floor=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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they drank it and dropped dead like flies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1575-pg540-part72:t6:o4:1
# text = they drank it and dropped dead like flies
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | they | it |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **drop** | past | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like flies; dead *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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