Test 2 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches…
no cap, what did the prince ask the sparkle guy for?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: ask · To what, where: sparkle guy
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 guy | det |
| 10 | sparkle | sparkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guy | compound |
| 11 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 guy | case |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · do-support | no cap | the sparkle guy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent guy=Recipient |
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
as much gold as the horses could pull
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 gold | case |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gold | amod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 pull | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horses | det |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pull | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 pull | aux |
| 8 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gold | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | could | the horses | much gold not said here | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
Option 2
all the silver in the hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 silver | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 silver | det |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 silver | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
every coin on the floor of the cave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 coin | det |
| 2 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coin | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floor | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
as much as he could carry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | as | as | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 carry | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carry | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 carry | aux |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 much | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | could | he | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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