Test 12 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth…

how did they know where to build the house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: know, build · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1232 «Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth is left alone on an island and a strange girl marries him» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 know	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 build	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 build	mark
7	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 build	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · do-support	they						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	build	to-infinitive		the house					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product

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

they looked for the best flat ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 ground	amod
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ground	amod
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	they					for the best flat ground	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for ground=Theme

Option 2

they walked the whole valley until they found a flat spot near a stream with good soil

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 valley	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 valley	amod
5	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obj
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 found	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spot	det
10	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spot	amod
11	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 stream	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stream	det
14	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 soil	case
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 soil	amod
17	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stream	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	they	the whole valley					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme valley=Trajectory
2	find	past	they	a flat spot		a stream with good soil			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Topic

Option 3

they guessed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 guessed	nsubj
2	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	they						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they found a spot near a stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spot	det
4	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 stream	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stream	det
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	they	a spot		a stream			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Topic

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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