Test 5 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth…

bro what's a cow house for if they got no cows lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, they · What happens: be, get · To what, where: cow house, cows

This is test 5 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 house	nsubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 house	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 house	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 house	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 house	compound
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 got	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 got	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 house	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cows	det
12	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	obj
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 house	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bro	a cow house					tree rules
2	get a condition, not said to happen	past	they	no cows					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=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

he likes cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 likes	nsubj
2	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 likes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	he	cows					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cow=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she wanted it, he just did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 did	advmod
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	do	past	he	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

no cows, just vibes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cows	det
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 vibes	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 vibes	advmod
5	vibes	vibe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cows	conj

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

Option 4

it's for the cows her dad sent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cows	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cows	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 cows	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cows	det
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	nsubj
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cows	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					for the cows	tree rules
2	send	past	her dad	the cows not said here					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme

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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