Test 11 · ★ · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6:…

why's the candle a big deal, like what's tallow, is it a snack?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: big deal · What happens: be · To what, where: big deal, tallow, snack

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1419 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6: the girl lights a candle, the prince flees, and she searches the winds» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 deal	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 deal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 candle	det
4	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 's	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deal	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snack	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 tallow	advmod
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tallow	cop
12	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deal	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 deal	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 snack	cop
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 snack	nsubj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 snack	det
17	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 snack	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		a big deal	tree rules
2	is a	present		tallow	tree rules
3	is a	present	a big deal	a snack	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

a bread made from wheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bread	det
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bread	acl
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 wheat	case
5	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a bread not said here		wheat			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from wheat=Material

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

melted fat for making candles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fat	amod
2	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 making	mark
4	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 fat	acl
5	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	make	gerund	melted fat not said here	candles					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset candle=Product

Option 3

melted fat for making candles, not a snack at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fat	amod
2	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 making	mark
4	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 fat	acl
5	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 making	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 snack	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 snack	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 snack	det
9	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 candles	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 making	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	make	gerund	melted fat not said here	candles and a snack		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset candle=Product

Option 4

a kind of cheese from the farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 cheese	case
4	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 farm	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farm	det
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod

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

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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