Test 3 · ★ · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29…

Be real, what did the Master-maid say about the fire horse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do, say · To what, where: Master maid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 say	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 real	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maid	det
7	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 maid	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Master	punct
9	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	about	about	ADP	_	14 horse	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 horse	compound
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive		real property	tree rules
2	do	past	the Master maid		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	present		about the fire horse	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

fire comes out of its mouth when it roars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 mouth	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 mouth	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mouth	nmod:poss
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 roars	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 roars	nsubj
9	roars	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	fire	fire's mouth					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result
2	roar	present	fire						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

smoke comes from its ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 ears	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ears	nmod:poss
5	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	smoke			smoke's ears			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ear=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

fire comes out of its nostrils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 nostrils	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 nostrils	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nostrils	nmod:poss
6	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	fire	fire's nostrils					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient nostril=Result

Option 4

fire pours out of its nose and burns everything near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pours	nsubj
2	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 nose	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 nose	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nose	nmod:poss
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pours	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 burns	cc
8	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pours	conj
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 burns	obj
10	near	near	ADV	_	8 burns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour out	present	fire	fire's nose					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
2	burn	present	fire not said here	everything				near property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

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