Test 1 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches…

yo, what did the giant say he'd do if the prince chatted with the Master-maid?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: giant, he · What happens: do, say, chat · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1443 «Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches the taxes and tricks the giant» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 prince	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obj
14	chatted	chat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 prince	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 maid	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 maid	det
17	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 maid	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Master	punct
19	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chatted	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	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	the prince		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
4	chat speech: other	participle		the prince not said here	with the Master maid	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with maid=Co-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

burn him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

cut his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	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 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	his head					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset head=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

wring his neck

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

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

Option 4

wring his neck and throw the body 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 body	det
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 throw	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	5 throw	compound:prt

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

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