Test 12 · ★ · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29…

What did the giant say he'd do if the Prince went in the rooms?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant, he, Prince · What happens: do, say, go · To what, where: rooms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1442 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29: the Prince learns tricks from the Master-maid and tames the fire horse» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Prince	det
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 rooms	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rooms	det
15	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 went	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the giant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	would	he		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go a condition, not said to happen	past	the Prince	the rooms	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in room=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

wring his head off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wring	wring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wring	appos
4	off	off	ADP	_	1 wring	compound:prt

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

Option 2

chop it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 chop	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 chop	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	imperative	you not said here	it					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

wring his neck and throw him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wring	wring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 neck	nmod:poss
3	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wring	appos
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 throw	cc
5	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wring	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 throw	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 throw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	infinitive		him = he					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

throw him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 throw	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 throw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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